About Humanness

Questions: How do human beings develop their highest mental abilities, the abilities to symbolize and to think? How did these […]

McLuhan’s Tetrad

Todd Kappelman wrote: The tetrad allowed McLuhan to apply four laws, framed as questions, to a wide spectrum of mankind’s […]

Beijing, Taipei and Chicago

“一个想要忆起往事的人不该在原地不动,往事散落于辽阔的世界,他必须到各处旅行,把往事从某个隐秘之处,一一找回来。”

From “The Success of Open Source”

“A great deal of human behavior is not motivated by narrow rationality concerns. The vast majority of human behavior is […]

Theories of the sign

Dyad Theory of the sign: signifier (material)/signified(mental) This needs to combine with other signs to take part in the flow […]

国学

七十一年了 先生的心得 现在这里

Barthes’ words

为今晚做阅读准备,遭遇Barthes’ words: Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority […]

传媒与日常生活

郭中实先生的文章思路清晰,提出了一个有趣的问题:什么样的隐藏话语通过什么形式在什么时候以什么名义为什么可以进入公众话语?