Peter Zhang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6753863 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Zhang |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Zhang |
| ASSINATURA | ZHANG P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Grand Valley State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5650-8714 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A thousand and three sexemes
This article puts in dialogue and extends Flusser’s articles, ‘Don Juan’ and ‘On progress’, by rendering explicit the notion of computational ontology implicit in both articles. Between ‘Don Juan’ and ‘On progress’, there is a notable shift from an extensive approach or the way of the computer to an intensive approach or the way of the camera. That is to say, Flusser’s thinking has diverged and evolved over time, or he is turning the same materia…
Understanding media
Marshall McLuhan’s root metaphor, media as extensions of humans, although not the only metaphor for media in his corpus, has dominated our theoretical imagination for a long time. Without denying its serviceability, this article ventures beyond McLuhan’s arch-metaphor to explore other ‘radical’ ways of understanding media. Each entry, if it generates enough dialogue, has the potential to evolve into a speculative project in its own right
Serres’s Philosophy of Media
Contemporary French philosopher Michel Serres has out-of-the-rut thoughts about many things, including media. This article focuses on his understanding of the genealogy of media, the notion of exo-Darwinism, and his forward-looking attitude toward new technologies. An alternative, counterintuitive take on human nature is revealed as the discussion proceeds. This article also touches upon what is irreplaceable about humans in an age when artificia…
Xu Bing’s pseudo Chinese and Sinified English as artistic mediums
This article speculates on the artistic rationale and mediumistic significance of Xu Bing’s pseudo Chinese script and Sinified English script. The former demonstrates that a text does not have to be comprehensible to be functional. The latter is provocative in the sense that it gives an alphabetic language a seemingly pictographic and calligraphic look, and points in the direction of the potential becoming-paratactic of an intrinsically hypotacti…
New Media, New Literary Theory, and New Literature from an Interological Horizon
This article discusses new developments in the field of literary theory and literary praxis in the era of new media from the perspectives of media theory and interology. It takes new media as a McLuhanesque formal cause and holds that a conspicuous characteristic of literary works in the era of new media lies in the salience and normalization of interality. This development means art forms like mosaic and Pointillism have acquired a paradigmatic …
Creativity in a Minor Key
Thematically speaking, this theoretical article draws on Vilém Flusser’s work on dialogue, the apparatus, and functionalism and Gilles Deleuze’s work on control societies, cybernetic machines, and lines of flight to problematize creativity. While promoting creativity, autocreativity, metacreativity, and ludic creativity, it also cautions against the co-optation of creativity and metacreativity by apparatuses or cybernetic systems. It argues for t…
The I Ching as a medium
After presenting the I Ching as a medium, this piece goes on to reveal the characteristics of the ancient Chinese sacred book from diverse perspectives. To maintain a fast tempo, and to stay within the bounds of what counts as a probe, the entries have been explained in a suggestive rather than exhaustive manner. Put otherwise, the piece seeks to say more with less, much like how the I Ching itself communicates. Although arranged alphabetically, …
The energic economy of cyberchronotopia
As social media, virtual reality, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, mobile computing, cloud computing, virtual collaboration platforms and other new technologies become an integral part of our life, more and more of us are facing a practical issue: insufficiency of psychic energy. Approaching the cyberneticization of the human condition from the perspective of psychic energy makes for a sorely needed critical intervention. This art…
Deleuze and Zen
This article experiments with interology as a mode of inquiry. It creates a multitude of interalities between Deleuze’s works and Zen literature, partly for purposes of mutual illumination, partly for the sake of involution. It is meant as equipment for living, which is incomplete without the reader’s involvement. Its serviceability rests on the reader’s becoming one with it
The Interological Turn in Media Ecology
This dialogue foregrounds the interological nature of media ecology as a style of exploration into the human condition. Besides Marshall McLuhan, it also brings Gilles Deleuze, field theory, and the I Ching, et cetera, to bear on media ecological inquiry. The idea is to reveal a pattern instead of defining a term
The Interological Turn in Media Ecology
Interality and Us
Deleuze the media ecologist? Extensions of and advances on McLuhan
The authors argue that Gilles Deleuze can be read as a media ecologist, extending many insights of Marshall McLuhan’s including the idea that the medium is the message, that the content of any medium is another medium, and that media extend and alter human faculties. Yet since McLuhan preferred to write in axioms and probes, Deleuze provides a more robust theorizing of these issues. Specifically, Deleuze advances on McLuhan by providing a more co…
The four ecologies, post-evolution and singularity
This article responds to the imminent break boundary humanity is facing from the vantage point of the productive interface between media ecology and French thought, especially that of Deleuze, Guattari and Virilio. It extends Guattari’s work by putting forward the notion of the four ecologies, reveals the post-evolutionary nature of our era and promotes spiritual singularity, as distinguished from technological singularity, as a phronētic way of …
Beijing hot, Beijing cool
This article uses McLuhan’s notions of hot and cool as heuristics to advance a critique of the city of Beijing as a living and lived material-symbolic complex. It both extends the applicability of these notions and draws attention to their paradoxical coexistence when the analysis becomes specific. The article ends by calling for a cooler Beijing, a society to come
McLuhan and I Ching
This article explores under-examined resonances between I Ching and McLuhan’s work. It presents I Ching as a metamedium, shows that McLuhan’s four laws of the media have precursors in I Ching, and evaluates the relevance of I Ching in the age of digital mediation. The article illustrates that studying I Ching in comparison with McLuhan’s work opens up numerous opportunities for mutual illumination between the two
Media ecology and techno-ethics in Paul Virilio
This article places Paul Virilio in the company of McLuhan, Foucault and Deleuze. After sketching out his intellectual personality, the article presents a few speed-induced media ecological and ethical problematics as Virilio sees them. It ends with two of Virilio’s signature notions – antiform and divergence – with the addition of a few tetrads. Finally, it points to further explorations that need to be made to fully capture the significance of …
The English Language as a Medium and Its Impact on Contemporary Chinese Culture
In this article, I use Marshall McLuhan's corpus as a major source of inspiration. I see the English language as a potent configuring force in contemporary Chinese culture and problematize the impact of the language by looking into its specificity as a "medium." I argue that English embodies the alphabet effect in the Chinese cultural context. It is a "hot" medium, a site of power struggles, a vehicle of Western normativities, and the gateway tow…
Deleuze’s Relay and Extension of McLuhan
This article highlights under-articulated resonances between McLuhan and Deleuze—two philosophers of communication. It illustrates how Deleuze actively used McLuhan as a mediator for his philosophical speculation, how he picked up a whole volley of McLuhan's probes and relaunched them in a new direction, giving them a distinct Spinozian ethical undertone. The article indicates with its very texture that bringing the two philosophers together crea…
The I Ching as a medium
After presenting the I Ching as a medium, this piece goes on to reveal the characteristics of the ancient Chinese sacred book from diverse perspectives. To maintain a fast tempo, and to stay within the bounds of what counts as a probe, the entries have been explained in a suggestive rather than exhaustive manner. Put otherwise, the piece seeks to say more with less, much like how the I Ching itself communicates. Although arranged alphabetically, …
The energic economy of cyberchronotopia
As social media, virtual reality, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, mobile computing, cloud computing, virtual collaboration platforms and other new technologies become an integral part of our life, more and more of us are facing a practical issue: insufficiency of psychic energy. Approaching the cyberneticization of the human condition from the perspective of psychic energy makes for a sorely needed critical intervention. This art…
Media ecology and techno-ethics in Paul Virilio
This article places Paul Virilio in the company of McLuhan, Foucault and Deleuze. After sketching out his intellectual personality, the article presents a few speed-induced media ecological and ethical problematics as Virilio sees them. It ends with two of Virilio’s signature notions – antiform and divergence – with the addition of a few tetrads. Finally, it points to further explorations that need to be made to fully capture the significance of …
The English Language as a Medium and Its Impact on Contemporary Chinese Culture
In this article, I use Marshall McLuhan's corpus as a major source of inspiration. I see the English language as a potent configuring force in contemporary Chinese culture and problematize the impact of the language by looking into its specificity as a "medium." I argue that English embodies the alphabet effect in the Chinese cultural context. It is a "hot" medium, a site of power struggles, a vehicle of Western normativities, and the gateway tow…
Deleuze’s Relay and Extension of McLuhan
This article highlights under-articulated resonances between McLuhan and Deleuze—two philosophers of communication. It illustrates how Deleuze actively used McLuhan as a mediator for his philosophical speculation, how he picked up a whole volley of McLuhan's probes and relaunched them in a new direction, giving them a distinct Spinozian ethical undertone. The article indicates with its very texture that bringing the two philosophers together crea…
Media ecology and techno-ethics in Paul Virilio
This article places Paul Virilio in the company of McLuhan, Foucault and Deleuze. After sketching out his intellectual personality, the article presents a few speed-induced media ecological and ethical problematics as Virilio sees them. It ends with two of Virilio’s signature notions – antiform and divergence – with the addition of a few tetrads. Finally, it points to further explorations that need to be made to fully capture the significance of …
McLuhan and I Ching
This article explores under-examined resonances between I Ching and McLuhan’s work. It presents I Ching as a metamedium, shows that McLuhan’s four laws of the media have precursors in I Ching, and evaluates the relevance of I Ching in the age of digital mediation. The article illustrates that studying I Ching in comparison with McLuhan’s work opens up numerous opportunities for mutual illumination between the two
Beijing hot, Beijing cool
This article uses McLuhan’s notions of hot and cool as heuristics to advance a critique of the city of Beijing as a living and lived material-symbolic complex. It both extends the applicability of these notions and draws attention to their paradoxical coexistence when the analysis becomes specific. The article ends by calling for a cooler Beijing, a society to come
Deleuze and Zen
This article experiments with interology as a mode of inquiry. It creates a multitude of interalities between Deleuze’s works and Zen literature, partly for purposes of mutual illumination, partly for the sake of involution. It is meant as equipment for living, which is incomplete without the reader’s involvement. Its serviceability rests on the reader’s becoming one with it
The Interological Turn in Media Ecology
This dialogue foregrounds the interological nature of media ecology as a style of exploration into the human condition. Besides Marshall McLuhan, it also brings Gilles Deleuze, field theory, and the I Ching, et cetera, to bear on media ecological inquiry. The idea is to reveal a pattern instead of defining a term
The Interological Turn in Media Ecology
Interality and Us
Deleuze the media ecologist? Extensions of and advances on McLuhan
The authors argue that Gilles Deleuze can be read as a media ecologist, extending many insights of Marshall McLuhan’s including the idea that the medium is the message, that the content of any medium is another medium, and that media extend and alter human faculties. Yet since McLuhan preferred to write in axioms and probes, Deleuze provides a more robust theorizing of these issues. Specifically, Deleuze advances on McLuhan by providing a more co…
The four ecologies, post-evolution and singularity
This article responds to the imminent break boundary humanity is facing from the vantage point of the productive interface between media ecology and French thought, especially that of Deleuze, Guattari and Virilio. It extends Guattari’s work by putting forward the notion of the four ecologies, reveals the post-evolutionary nature of our era and promotes spiritual singularity, as distinguished from technological singularity, as a phronētic way of …
The energic economy of cyberchronotopia
As social media, virtual reality, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, mobile computing, cloud computing, virtual collaboration platforms and other new technologies become an integral part of our life, more and more of us are facing a practical issue: insufficiency of psychic energy. Approaching the cyberneticization of the human condition from the perspective of psychic energy makes for a sorely needed critical intervention. This art…
New Media, New Literary Theory, and New Literature from an Interological Horizon
This article discusses new developments in the field of literary theory and literary praxis in the era of new media from the perspectives of media theory and interology. It takes new media as a McLuhanesque formal cause and holds that a conspicuous characteristic of literary works in the era of new media lies in the salience and normalization of interality. This development means art forms like mosaic and Pointillism have acquired a paradigmatic …
Creativity in a Minor Key
Thematically speaking, this theoretical article draws on Vilém Flusser’s work on dialogue, the apparatus, and functionalism and Gilles Deleuze’s work on control societies, cybernetic machines, and lines of flight to problematize creativity. While promoting creativity, autocreativity, metacreativity, and ludic creativity, it also cautions against the co-optation of creativity and metacreativity by apparatuses or cybernetic systems. It argues for t…
The I Ching as a medium
After presenting the I Ching as a medium, this piece goes on to reveal the characteristics of the ancient Chinese sacred book from diverse perspectives. To maintain a fast tempo, and to stay within the bounds of what counts as a probe, the entries have been explained in a suggestive rather than exhaustive manner. Put otherwise, the piece seeks to say more with less, much like how the I Ching itself communicates. Although arranged alphabetically, …
Serres’s Philosophy of Media
Contemporary French philosopher Michel Serres has out-of-the-rut thoughts about many things, including media. This article focuses on his understanding of the genealogy of media, the notion of exo-Darwinism, and his forward-looking attitude toward new technologies. An alternative, counterintuitive take on human nature is revealed as the discussion proceeds. This article also touches upon what is irreplaceable about humans in an age when artificia…
Xu Bing’s pseudo Chinese and Sinified English as artistic mediums
This article speculates on the artistic rationale and mediumistic significance of Xu Bing’s pseudo Chinese script and Sinified English script. The former demonstrates that a text does not have to be comprehensible to be functional. The latter is provocative in the sense that it gives an alphabetic language a seemingly pictographic and calligraphic look, and points in the direction of the potential becoming-paratactic of an intrinsically hypotacti…
A thousand and three sexemes
This article puts in dialogue and extends Flusser’s articles, ‘Don Juan’ and ‘On progress’, by rendering explicit the notion of computational ontology implicit in both articles. Between ‘Don Juan’ and ‘On progress’, there is a notable shift from an extensive approach or the way of the computer to an intensive approach or the way of the camera. That is to say, Flusser’s thinking has diverged and evolved over time, or he is turning the same materia…
Understanding media
Marshall McLuhan’s root metaphor, media as extensions of humans, although not the only metaphor for media in his corpus, has dominated our theoretical imagination for a long time. Without denying its serviceability, this article ventures beyond McLuhan’s arch-metaphor to explore other ‘radical’ ways of understanding media. Each entry, if it generates enough dialogue, has the potential to evolve into a speculative project in its own right
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