Hansun Hsiung
Biographic Data
| ID | 909346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hansun Hsiung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hansun |
| FAMILY NAME | Hsiung |
| SIGNATURE | HSIUNG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3001-3497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Racializing Print Capitalism in the Transimperial Pacific: “The Printers Fear the Invasion of the Yellow Peril”
This article uses the Victorian Master Printers’ Association of Australia’s 1908 protest against Japanese print artifacts as a backdrop against which to rethink print capitalism’s relationship to race. First, rather than national imaginaries, I demonstrate that flows of print capital illuminate the formation of racialized class identities across a transimperially contested Pacific. Second, I argue that to better understand print capitalism, histo…
B C, Before Computers: On Information Technology from Writing to the Age of Digital Data
Television and the Origins of Visual Pattern Recognition AI in Japan: A 'Quest for a Seeing Machine
This article traces the genealogy of contemporary data-driven computer vision to developments at the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) in the 1960s. Specifically, it examines NHK's Visual and Auditory Information Science Unit and its role in the invention of the world's first deep convolutional neural network. The use of television to collect viewer behaviour data enabled modelling of eye-brain information processing, in particular mechanisms …
Complete, Accessible, Now: What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Research Library
The history of the research library represents a series of negotiations over the spatio-temporalities of knowledge. This article focuses on debates over the nature and organization of university research libraries triggered by Harvard president Charles W. Eliot’s 1902 proposal to partition “living” and “dead” books based on usage statistics, relocating “dead” books to offsite storage inaccessible for browsing. I use the Eliot debate to explore at…
Use Me as Your Test: Patients, Practitioners, and the Commensurability of Virtue
Cutting deeply into a patient’s body posed a problem for medical deontology in premodern East Asia, defined by the Confucian virtue of “humaneness” and a preference for noninvasive cures. How did Japanese physicians reconcile “humaneness” with their interest in invasive European surgical techniques? This essay offers answers through the tale of Kan (1743-1804) and her physician, Hanaoka Seishū (1760-1835). Inspired by the writings of the German p…
Introduction: Epistemologies of the Match
Algorithmically driven online dating platforms today promise the ability to sort through relevant data and identify one’s ideal amorous matches effectively. Yet the appeal of technological and scientific solutions to the messy problem of finding partners is hardly new. This introduction to the Focus section “It’s a Match!” argues that the history of amorous matching has long been part and parcel of the history of science, in particular the social…
From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love
This essay examines techniques of amorous matching in the work of the “utopian socialist” Charles Fourier (1772–1837), recovering the practices and the institutions he proposed for the management of love, as well as his political arguments for their centrality in a perfected society. In doing so, it argues more broadly for the need to position the management of love at the origin of early social science. Much as early defenses of capitalism had a…
Épistémologie à la japonaise: Kanamori Osamu and the history and philosophy of science in Japan
As the history of science makes its “global turn,” it has become ever more vital to pluralize the geography of its theoretical voices. This article takes up the challenge by introducing Anglophone scholars to the work of the late Kanamori Osamu (1954-2016), a major force in the introduction of French épistémologie and SSK (Sociology of Scientific Knowledge) to Japan. Centered around a review of three volumes edited by Kanamori shortly before his …
Whose Science Wins or Loses? (And What's Left for Reason After)
Were we to apply this method to the nineteenth century—for Burnham, the century of popularization’s genesis and zenith—then the following becomes clear: scientific popularization was always about a global “people.” This is not to say that popularization and globalization were the same. But within the context of the nineteenth century’s radical geopolitical asymmetries, popularization and globalization were necessarily entangled: “Never had Europe…
The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan by Federico Marcon
Woman, Man, Abacus: A Tale of Enlightenment
Hansun Hsiung examines the hitherto neglected role of bookkeeping in the work of Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Focusing on the concepts of number and balance, he argues that the practice of double-entry bookkeeping was closely related to Fukuzawa's unique articulation of Victorian liberalism. Numbers provided Fukuzawa with a suprahistorical mode of argumentation, whereas bookkeeping provided a normative framework of balance for dealing with numbe…
Whose Science Wins or Loses? (And What's Left for Reason After)
Were we to apply this method to the nineteenth century—for Burnham, the century of popularization’s genesis and zenith—then the following becomes clear: scientific popularization was always about a global “people.” This is not to say that popularization and globalization were the same. But within the context of the nineteenth century’s radical geopolitical asymmetries, popularization and globalization were necessarily entangled: “Never had Europe…
Woman, Man, Abacus: A Tale of Enlightenment
Hansun Hsiung examines the hitherto neglected role of bookkeeping in the work of Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Focusing on the concepts of number and balance, he argues that the practice of double-entry bookkeeping was closely related to Fukuzawa's unique articulation of Victorian liberalism. Numbers provided Fukuzawa with a suprahistorical mode of argumentation, whereas bookkeeping provided a normative framework of balance for dealing with numbe…
The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan by Federico Marcon
Whose Science Wins or Loses? (And What's Left for Reason After)
Were we to apply this method to the nineteenth century—for Burnham, the century of popularization’s genesis and zenith—then the following becomes clear: scientific popularization was always about a global “people.” This is not to say that popularization and globalization were the same. But within the context of the nineteenth century’s radical geopolitical asymmetries, popularization and globalization were necessarily entangled: “Never had Europe…
Épistémologie à la japonaise: Kanamori Osamu and the history and philosophy of science in Japan
As the history of science makes its “global turn,” it has become ever more vital to pluralize the geography of its theoretical voices. This article takes up the challenge by introducing Anglophone scholars to the work of the late Kanamori Osamu (1954-2016), a major force in the introduction of French épistémologie and SSK (Sociology of Scientific Knowledge) to Japan. Centered around a review of three volumes edited by Kanamori shortly before his …
Introduction: Epistemologies of the Match
Algorithmically driven online dating platforms today promise the ability to sort through relevant data and identify one’s ideal amorous matches effectively. Yet the appeal of technological and scientific solutions to the messy problem of finding partners is hardly new. This introduction to the Focus section “It’s a Match!” argues that the history of amorous matching has long been part and parcel of the history of science, in particular the social…
From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love
This essay examines techniques of amorous matching in the work of the “utopian socialist” Charles Fourier (1772–1837), recovering the practices and the institutions he proposed for the management of love, as well as his political arguments for their centrality in a perfected society. In doing so, it argues more broadly for the need to position the management of love at the origin of early social science. Much as early defenses of capitalism had a…
Use Me as Your Test: Patients, Practitioners, and the Commensurability of Virtue
Cutting deeply into a patient’s body posed a problem for medical deontology in premodern East Asia, defined by the Confucian virtue of “humaneness” and a preference for noninvasive cures. How did Japanese physicians reconcile “humaneness” with their interest in invasive European surgical techniques? This essay offers answers through the tale of Kan (1743-1804) and her physician, Hanaoka Seishū (1760-1835). Inspired by the writings of the German p…
Complete, Accessible, Now: What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Research Library
The history of the research library represents a series of negotiations over the spatio-temporalities of knowledge. This article focuses on debates over the nature and organization of university research libraries triggered by Harvard president Charles W. Eliot’s 1902 proposal to partition “living” and “dead” books based on usage statistics, relocating “dead” books to offsite storage inaccessible for browsing. I use the Eliot debate to explore at…
Racializing Print Capitalism in the Transimperial Pacific: “The Printers Fear the Invasion of the Yellow Peril”
This article uses the Victorian Master Printers’ Association of Australia’s 1908 protest against Japanese print artifacts as a backdrop against which to rethink print capitalism’s relationship to race. First, rather than national imaginaries, I demonstrate that flows of print capital illuminate the formation of racialized class identities across a transimperially contested Pacific. Second, I argue that to better understand print capitalism, histo…
B C, Before Computers: On Information Technology from Writing to the Age of Digital Data
Television and the Origins of Visual Pattern Recognition AI in Japan: A 'Quest for a Seeing Machine
This article traces the genealogy of contemporary data-driven computer vision to developments at the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) in the 1960s. Specifically, it examines NHK's Visual and Auditory Information Science Unit and its role in the invention of the world's first deep convolutional neural network. The use of television to collect viewer behaviour data enabled modelling of eye-brain information processing, in particular mechanisms …
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (3 works)