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Program
Series of lectures/talks
2025/8/14—Continuously updated
Speaker | Hu Yilin Shen Cong
This series is hosted by the founder of TINAYU ARTECH, Hu Yilin, and his student and artistic partner, Shen Cong. Each session starts from different works of art and technological phenomena, engaging in interdisciplinary dialogues exploring the intertwining of technology and art—tracing its historical context, revealing its philosophical meanings, and ensuring each session becomes a dual discovery of thought and aesthetics.
February 25, 2025 — September 15, 2025, a total of 5 periods
Speaker | Hu Yilin
This series revolves around the logic of the industrial age, the rise and fall of globalization, the production of capital and desire, the reversal of the information age, as well as the possibilities of Bitcoin and network states. With a historical and philosophical perspective, it questions the future directions of technology, capital, and human life.
Reading series
2025/2/16—Continuously updated. Issue 22 has been updated.
Reader | Hu Yilin
Heidegger introduces the concept of 'Dasein' in his book, re-examining the age-old and forgotten question of 'what is existence' through an analysis of the structure of human existence—its temporality, anxiety, death, and everydayness. This reading group will delve into this profound and enlightening work, exploring core themes such as 'the meaning of existence,' 'the relationship between time and existence,' and 'the authentic self versus inauthentic existence,' attempting to understand how Heidegger opens a new chapter in phenomenology and existentialism.
February 15, 2025—September 11, 2025, a total of 18 installments
Reader: Hu Yilin, Shen Cong
The popularization of technology has led people to increasingly rely on external devices to store, transmit, and process information, resulting in a gradual decline in human thinking and memory capabilities. Stiegler proposes the concept of "re-individualization" in his book, advocating for the reconstruction of the symbolic structures of culture and education to resist the spiritual impoverishment caused by the technology-capital system. The reading group will discuss three main issues: "the decline of symbols," "the relationship between technology and spirit," and "how to reinvent meaning," attempting to understand Stiegler's diagnosis and therapy for contemporary cultural ailments.
Fake News Department
Irregular updates
"The Unreliable News Department" is a visual series that straddles the line between fake news, true philosophy, and AI creativity. It is an unstructured, untrustworthy, and unreliable "hacker news department" that serves as an active invasion into the absurdity of the information society. From the AGI soul trial to the on-chain renaissance, each piece of news serves as an opening statement to a question of the AI era. Truth and falsehood do not matter; what counts is whether you believe it or not. Welcome to watch, and welcome to question.
Series of lectures/talks
February 25, 2025 — September 15, 2025, a total of 5 periods
Speaker | Hu Yilin
2025/8/14—Continuously updated
Participants | Hu Yilin, Shen Cong
2025/6/15—Continuously updating
Speaker | Hu Yilin
Book Club | "The Poverty of Symbolism I"
February 15, 2025—September 11, 2025, a total of 18 installments
Reader: Hu Yilin, Shen Cong
"Symbolic Poverty I" was first published in 1996 and is a profound reflection by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler on contemporary capitalist culture and psychological structures.
The proliferation of technology has made people increasingly reliant on external devices to store, transmit, and process information, resulting in a gradual impoverishment of human "thinking" and "memory" capabilities. In the book, Stiegler introduces the concept of "re-individuation," advocating for the reconstruction of the symbolic structures of culture and education to resist the mental poverty caused by the technology-capital system. The reading group will discuss three main issues: "the decline of the symbolic," "the relationship between technology and the spirit," and "how to reinvent meaning," attempting to understand Stiegler's diagnosis and treatment of contemporary cultural ailments.
2025/2/16—Continuously updated. Issue 22 has been updated.
Reader | Hu Yilin
Fake News Department
Irregular updates
Series of lectures/talks
2025/8/14—Continuously updated
Participants | Hu Yilin, Shen Cong
The "Philosophy Blind Box" series is hosted by Hu Yilin, the founder of Tian and ARTECH (formerly an associate professor in the Department of History of Science at Tsinghua University and now a free scholar), and his student and artistic partner Shen Cong (a technology art curator and artist). With an open structure akin to a "blind box," each installment starts from different artistic works and technological phenomena, exploring the intersection of technology and art through interdisciplinary dialogue between the mentor and the student—tracing its historical context, revealing its philosophical implications, and making each opening a dual discovery of thought and aesthetics.
February 25, 2025 — September 15, 2025, a total of 5 periods
Speaker | Hu Yilin
This series revolves around the logic of the industrial age, the rise and fall of globalization, the production of capital and desire, the reversal of the information age, and the possibilities of Bitcoin and networked nations. With a historical and philosophical perspective, it questions the future directions of technology, capital, and human life.
——In the current environment, can people still manage with the traditional capitalist market order? Can tariffs still be applied to digital products? Can we still track their logistics like in the past? Can we still operate through the cyclical iteration between currency and goods? Wiener said that we need to call for a new set of values, value systems, and new social institutions to respond to the new goods and market environment of the internet age. We have already seen this ideal new concept — we refer to it as a “networked nation,” or a new type of national order, international environment, and living world. What characteristics might it have?
Reading series
2025/2/16—Continuously updated. Issue 22 has been updated.
Reader | Hu Yilin
"Being and Time" is the representative work of German philosopher Martin Heidegger and is regarded as a milestone in 20th-century philosophy. In the book, Heidegger presents the concept of “Dasein” and re-examines the age-old and forgotten question of “What is existence” through an analysis of the structure of human existence—temporality, anxiety, death, and everydayness. This reading group will take everyone into this profound and inspiring work, exploring core themes such as "the meaning of existence," "the relationship between time and being," and "the true self versus inauthentic existence," attempting to understand how Heidegger opened a new chapter in phenomenology and existentialism.
It will be launched on February 16, 2025, at the unfinished bookstore in Chinatown, Singapore. This reading group will be led by Hu Yilin, the founder of Tian and ARTECH, using a method of detailed reading and discussion, with updates on past minutes to follow.
February 15, 2025—September 11, 2025, a total of 18 installments
Reader: Hu Yilin, Shen Cong
"The Symbolic Poverty I" was first published in 1996 and is the work of French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, who deeply reflects on the contemporary capitalist culture and psychological structure.
The proliferation of technology has made people increasingly reliant on external devices to store, transmit, and process information, leading to a gradual impoverishment of human 'thinking' and 'memory' capabilities. In the book, Stiegler introduces the concept of 're-individuation', advocating for the reconstruction of the symbolic structures of culture and education to resist the spiritual poverty caused by the technological-capital system. The reading group will focus the discussion on three main issues: 'the decline of the symbolic', 'the relationship between technology and spirit', and 'how to reinvent meaning', attempting to understand Stiegler's diagnosis and remedy for contemporary cultural ailments.
Fake News Department
Irregular updates
"The Unreliable News Department" is an audiovisual series that lies between fake news, true philosophy, and AI imagination. We do not report facts; we deconstruct consensus; we do not chase trending topics; we analyze emotional focus. This is an unstaffed, unreliable, and untruthful "Hacker News Department," and it is also an active invasion into the absurdity of the information society. From the AGI soul judgment to the on-chain cultural renaissance, each piece of news is an opening statement on a question of the AI era. Truth or falsehood doesn't matter; what matters is whether you believe it. Welcome to watch, welcome to question.