巴山夜雨⟳的笔记(11)
Grand Hotel Abyss (4)
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Chapter 16
As early as Plato, dialecticians meant to achieve something positive by means of negation... Before Plato, Heraclitus had proposed that the world is constantly in flux... for dialecticians, the que... -
Up Against the Wall, MotherF*ckers
Sublimating sexual energy is different from repressing it and yet both are, Freud thought, evident in and even necessary for civilization. Freud wrote in _Civilisation and Its Discontents_: '..happ... -
Critical Theory in the New Millennium
The question of recognition goes back to Plato, for whom the psyche could be divided into three parts: reason, eros, and what he called thymos. Megalothymia means the need to be recognized as super... -
The Frankfurt Spider
'public sphere' was killed off during the twentieth century...(by) the welfare state, mass media, the rise of public relations, the undermining of parliamentary politics by the rise of political pa...
Speaking into the Air (1)
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“对牛弹琴”与“洗脑”：沟通的一体两面
In sum, five intertwined visions are clear in the 1920s: communication as the management of mass opinion; the elimination of semantics fog; vain sallies from the citadel of the self; the disclosure...
Wall Street's Think Tank (2)
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Neoliberalism
A definition of "neoliberalism", by David Harvey: A theory of political economical practice that promotes the human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedom ... -
the original "Washing Consensus"
In 1989, just after the end of the Reagan years, the term "Washington Consensus" was coined. The term was used to capture the neoliberal interface between the U.S. Treasury Department and the Fed o...
Net Smart (1)
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个人电脑早期历史
Taylor had been a twenty-six-year-old research director at the department of Defense's Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA)in the 1960s, when interactive computing (meaning a programmer could en...