Jia Peng

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Why are functors interesting? One possible answer is that functors allow you to translate results (which can be phrased in category-theoretical language) about one category to results about another category.
Is Category Theory Practical? - by Senia Sheydvasser
If your language is designed like a category, then there are sorts of theorems you automatically have about its objects.
Is Category Theory Practical? - by Senia Sheydvasser
You can construct a functor from this category to some other kind of category that “evaluates” the meanings of these phrases (that is, if two phrases are close in meaning, the corresponding objects in the category should be “close together” in some sense), which is the semantics category
Is Category Theory Practical? - by Senia Sheydvasser
如日本在其現代化中所顯現的「自主」與「自我殖民」的雙重性格，中國的現代化也不免帶著「自我殖民」創傷。
鄭鴻生的 Blog: 關於東亞被殖民經驗的一些思考
加上在親美的國民政府的教育體制下，英文取代了日文成為新的上國語言，國語取代日語成為新的論述語言，這種幾代相承的文化失語感使這種悲情感覺結構更加堅不可摧，影響到後來台灣人的公眾與政治行為。
鄭鴻生的 Blog: 關於東亞被殖民經驗的一些思考
香港社會在一百五十多年來的英國殖民地歷史中，與中國大陸的變化息息相關，它的人口組成也一直在變化，直到1970年代以後才在以廣府話作為香港普通話的背景下，形成香港人的身分認同。
鄭鴻生的 Blog: 關於東亞被殖民經驗的一些思考
或許這個發展的落差與不一致性，本就是這個龐大的中國傳統社會到現代社會轉變的正常現象？
鄭鴻生的 Blog: 關於東亞被殖民經驗的一些思考
它本身並沒有能力去認識到被殖民過後的社會有所謂的後殖民問題
鄭鴻生的 Blog: 關於東亞被殖民經驗的一些思考
如果說「現代化」這個東西是現代人「認同」的基本元素的話，接受日本殖民現代化教育的台灣一般知識菁英，與經過辛亥、五四與抗戰的中國大陸一般知識菁英，在現代認同上就有了基本的歧異，雙方缺乏互相的理解。這個歧異無關左右之分，而是民族內部的。
鄭鴻生的 Blog: 關於東亞被殖民經驗的一些思考
換言之，台灣原來的抗日志士在日本殖民政府嚴厲鎮壓之後，或者噤聲，或者被關在監獄裡，不然就是投奔祖國參加抗戰。如此在台灣還能發聲的，當然就主要是那批接受殖民式現代化教育的新興中間階層的新社會菁英了，這一批人對後來台灣的社會心理影響很大。
鄭鴻生的 Blog: 關於東亞被殖民經驗的一些思考
Here we enter the shatter zone. Hands within hands. Metabolic and metaphorical vectors overlap. Is this confusing? Yes, it is confusing.
Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
What I take from this is that the brain has its own handwriting, which depends on a certain protein. I can imagine my poor brain throwing up its hands in dismay to find all the good handwriting protein gone, or in a mess.
Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
if I am a procrastinator, I dot my i’s to the left
Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
In its badness my chaotic handwriting seems to reveal something about me that I’d rather not look at. It carries what Gerard Manley Hopkins calls ‘the inscape’ out. ‘Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind,’ Confucius said.
Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes.
Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
Understanding is a lively topic for philosophers, but not for the tech industry.
Knowledge Collapse - Boston Review
But what is this understanding? In avoiding circularity we retreat into poetry: “it happens suddenly: one direction becomes more dense, or more luminous,” in the words of mathematician Marie-France Vignéras.
Knowledge Collapse - Boston Review
You can greatly increase your value on the job market by acquiring cheap skills in one domain and selling them in another domain where those skills are in short supply and high demand.
Career Advice - Geoff Keeling
Early in my career I spent way too much time following academic trends and not enough time thinking about what was important to work on from a societal point of view.
Career Advice - Geoff Keeling
When generalizing the usages of autopoiesis, developed while studying biological systems, to make it also applicable to social systems, the biology-based theory of autopoiesis should therefore be expanded into a more general theory of self-referential autopoietic systems.
Autopoiesis - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Social and psychic systems are based upon another type of autopoietic organization than living systems: namely on communication and consciousness, respectively, as modes of meaning-based reproduction.
Autopoiesis - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
On one hand, the predators in the Dark Internet Forest are the mega-platforms themselves, at the core of which are machines for turning human action and feeling into saleable data objects.
Against the dark forest
In a framework for thinking about our networks, to leave out the majority of people sustaining real damage is a failure of perception and of proportion.
Against the dark forest
The rosemary nods upon the grave; The lily lolls upon the wave;
The Sleeper | The Poetry Foundation
I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, And softly dripping, drop by drop,
The Sleeper | The Poetry Foundation
In the exploration frame, you approach the LLM as a medium for thinking. You’re not trying to get answers out; you’re trying to rotate your own understanding, encounter projections you couldn’t generate yourself, iterate toward clarity through dialogue.
Rotating the Space: On LLMs as a Medium for Thought | rotating_the_space
This is not summarization, which is more like dimensionality reduction
Rotating the Space: On LLMs as a Medium for Thought | rotating_the_space
Film wasn’t just recorded theater; it enabled montage, the cut as a unit of meaning, entirely new relationships between image and time.
Rotating the Space: On LLMs as a Medium for Thought | rotating_the_space
我觉得艺术本身就是为个体经验而存在的。因为有这种个体经验，人与人之间可以交流，通过电影，可以看到另外一个人的心底、另外一个人的真实感受，我们可以共享他人的生命感受。这是艺术在这个世界当中存在的唯一理由，别的东西跟艺术没有什么关系。
王兵：我们无法面对真实的自己文章
在中国大众的观念中，一个电影要是不得奖，好像什么都不是。为什么会这样？因为中国没有自己的电影文化，没有自己的影评基础。
王兵：我们无法面对真实的自己文章
艺术电影这个词只有中国有，中国的主流电影是革命现实主义电影，是宣传电影，有别于欧洲电影。
王兵：我们无法面对真实的自己文章
另一个很重要的原因就是共产国际运动到中国以后，历次的国家运动造就的生活机制让每个人都心有余悸，无法信任他人。
王兵：我们无法面对真实的自己文章
因为电影中所有的东西都需要借助于影像来实现，而影像的穿透力不需要文化做支撑，所以电影在宣传领域才有那么大的号召力
王兵：我们无法面对真实的自己文章
电影有一个特性，就是文盲看电影与知识分子在感受力上是一样的。
王兵：我们无法面对真实的自己文章
The spatial and symbolic framing of women as subjects in need of protection reinforced the gendered beliefs that women were unfit for and, at best, auxiliaries in the hydroelectric construction industry.
Gendered Space and Labour Control in a Chinese State-Sponsored Hydroelectric Project in Ecuador
Using Lefebvre’s theory of social space, which brings together the materiality and symbolic meanings of space structured by relationships of production and reproduction (see Razack 2018: 119)
Gendered Space and Labour Control in a Chinese State-Sponsored Hydroelectric Project in Ecuador
In analysing spatial politics, Lefebvre identifies three elements in the production of social space—that is, conceived, perceived, and experienced (or lived) space.
Gendered Space and Labour Control in a Chinese State-Sponsored Hydroelectric Project in Ecuador
The Chudjak was forged in the toxic primordial soup of anonymous imageboards, quickly mutating into two dominant species. One is the accelerationist variant, captioned with the nihilistic slogan: “The West Has Fallen. Billions Must Die.”
From 4chan to Xiaohongshu: How "Chudjak" Became the Face of Chinese Gen Z Despair
The competition is just as rigid, but the payoff has became uncertain. And this uncertainty is breeding a cynical gloom, which further breeds school-maxxing influencers like Zhang and some very high-quality, very dark memes.
From 4chan to Xiaohongshu: How "Chudjak" Became the Face of Chinese Gen Z Despair
Zhang’s method was essentially a caste calculator. He looked at four variables: gender, hukou (urban or rural), household income, and scores.
From 4chan to Xiaohongshu: How "Chudjak" Became the Face of Chinese Gen Z Despair
When you have that much influence it becomes hard to tell whether you are explaining the system or reinforcing it.
From 4chan to Xiaohongshu: How "Chudjak" Became the Face of Chinese Gen Z Despair
renews the opportunity to view Black concrete poetry as an endeavour in visuality, and to re-negotiate Black language through the art-historical terrain of abstraction
The Radical Legacy of N.H. Pritchard’s Concrete Poetry | Frieze
he makes concrete the serial disruptions and disorderings that Blackness brings to bear on the contours of language
The Radical Legacy of N.H. Pritchard’s Concrete Poetry | Frieze
One might argue that Pritchard’s marginality follows from his supposedly quieter political intonation, compared to his peers in the Black Arts Movement: language is not marshalled to represent or explicitly call for a revolutionary horizon, rather, language itself is subject to an upheaval.
The Radical Legacy of N.H. Pritchard’s Concrete Poetry | Frieze
Black avant-garde writing
The Radical Legacy of N.H. Pritchard’s Concrete Poetry | Frieze
天水接冥蒙，一角西南白。欲渡浣花溪，遠夢輕無力。
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紅蠟淚，青綾被，水沉濃，卻與黃茅野店聽西風。
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濕雲全壓數峰低，影淒迷，望中疑。非霧非煙神女欲來時。若問生涯原是夢。除夢裏，沒人知。
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好在軟綃紅淚積，漏痕斜罥菱絲碧。古釵封寄玉關秋，天咫尺，人南北，不信鴛鴦頭不白。
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昏鴉盡，小立恨因誰？急雪乍翻香閣絮，輕風吹到膽瓶梅。心字已成灰。
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