Drei Tage nachdem ich einen Artikel darüber veröffentlicht hatte, wie sich der Aktualisieren-Button meiner Website in eine künstlerische Geste der Komposition verwandeln lässt, lud mich Prof. Yvonne Dohna-Schlobitten unerwartet dazu ein, an ihrem sich entwickelnden internationalen Projekt als Künstler teilzunehmen – und beinahe im selben Atemzug auch in wissenschaftlicher Funktion. Dieses konkrete Werk hatte sie zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch nicht gesehen. Ich schickte es ihr, erklärte, dass jede Aktualisierung oder Navigation eine neue Komposition hervorbringen könne, und bat sie, es…
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Philosophy
Building a Generative Artwork That Can Change Its Maker: From Generation to Encounter and Back Again
Three days after I published an article about turning the refresh button of my website into an artistic compositional gesture, Prof. Yvonne Dohna-Schlobitten unexpectedly invited me to participate in her developing international project as an artist—and, almost in the same breath, in a scientific capacity as well. She had not yet seen this particular work. I sent it to her, explained that every refresh or navigation could produce another composition, and asked her to try it. Her first response…
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奇迹与 Loïc 被赋予的道德代价：论《冬天的故事》（1992）里的希望、信仰和确信（及其区别）
我原本以为，埃里克·侯麦（Éric Rohmer）的《冬天的故事》（Conte d’hiver, 1992）最终会让我思考爱情中的忠贞、偶然性，也许再加上一点神学。然而实际发生的却完全不是这样：我发现自己不断地在与菲莉茜（Félicie…
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What Loïc Taught Me About the Moral Cost of a Miracle: A Tale of Winter (1992) and the Difference Between Hope, Faith, and Certainty
I expected Éric Rohmer’s Conte d’hiver (A Tale of Winter, 1992) to leave me thinking about romantic fidelity, chance, and perhaps a little theology. Instead, I ended up arguing with Félicie, defending her, criticizing her again, correcting some of my own criticisms after returning to the screenplay, questioning whether her “faith” is really faith, and finally becoming much more interested in Loïc than in the miraculous return of Charles. The film grew richer every time one of my…
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Deletion Is a Claim, Not a Command: Can “Deleted” Ever Be a Promise?
After finishing a long investigation into Git deletion, I thought the difficult part was over. The repository had been the experiment; the broader lesson seemed to be that deletion has several observable states. Then a more uncomfortable question appeared. If a system says that something is deleted, what exactly is it claiming, who defines the scope of that claim, and who gets to decide when the process is truly finished?
I documented the original technical investigation in Deleting in Git…
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Deleting in Git and Rethinking (Philosophically) Deletion as a System Design Question
Yesterday I removed a file that no longer belonged in one of my Git repositories. It had already been committed and pushed several times, so rather than simply deleting the current copy, I decided to clean up the corresponding history as well.
What looked like a straightforward maintenance task became more complicated once I started verifying the result. The file disappeared from the current branch, then from reachable history, but some of the old commit IDs could still be resolved…
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Refreshing the Webpage as an Act of (Artistic) Composition and Encounter
My Background Studio began as a practical website feature, but it gradually became a form of browser-native art. Technical writing, photography, animated animals, religious imagery, mathematical structures and Internet vernacular now coexist in compositions generated by twelve algorithms. The central page and its moving margins are complementary: each gives the other a context, rhythm and character that it could not produce alone.
A background that completes the foreground
It would be misleading to divide the website into “important content” and…
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候麦电影中的爱、愧疚与解脱：《女友的男友》（1987）观后感
（口述转录）
《女孩的男朋友》或者《我女友的男朋友》之类的。
总的来说，我挺喜欢这部电影的。它非常有名，据说是他一系列道德寓言故事中的一部。我之前多次听过它的名字，但从未认真看过。过去几天，我一直在等待英国签证申请的结果。我昨天提交了申请，现在正在等待，所以自然有点紧张。因此，我断断续续地看了这部电影，通常每天吃饭的时候看几分钟，最后分几次看完了。
Love, Guilt, and Relief in Rohmer: Some Thoughts After Watching “L’Ami de mon amie” (1987)
(Oral transcription)
Anyway, today I finally finished watching a film by Rohmer—the French director Éric Rohmer. The film is called something like The Girl’s Boyfriend, or My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend—something along those lines.
Overall, I quite liked it. The film is very famous and is supposedly one of his series of moral tales. I had heard its title many times before, but I had never watched it carefully. Over the past few days, I have also been waiting for the result of my UK visa application. I submitted it yesterday, and now I am waiting, so naturally I have been feeling a little nervous. I therefore watched the film intermittently, usually for a few minutes while eating each day, and eventually finished it over several sittings.
论”好的”
近日与友行，涉宗教、哲学诸多事宜——宗教是真，哲学，我一厢情愿的哲学。主题升华俱快，世界者，宇宙者，真善美者，云云。我闪一念：宗教从何时开始，沦落到去解释宇宙了？
后又有耳闻：新教非宗教也。如此之自觉，我甚喜。讲步道，讲虔诚，讲受洗，这分明是单纯，难为抗拒的，又复杂的眼神，我忐忑不安。——我怎么能拒绝她。
乔达摩怎么看？无有定法名阿耨多罗三藐三菩提，亦无有定法，如来可说。
孟子何如？与弟子言，岂好辩，不得已。
而后言：不可说，非法，非非法。