Series of Lectures |
Network Nation and Its Technological Foundations
Lecture Series |
National Cybernetics and Its Technological Foundations
Lecture Series |
National Cybernetics and Its Technological Foundations
This series revolves around the logic of the industrial era, the rise and fall of globalization, the production of capital and desire, the reversal of the information age, and the possibilities of Bitcoin and network states. With a historical and philosophical perspective, it inquires into the future directions of technology, capital, and human life.
——In the current environment, can people still manage using the traditional capitalist market order? Can we still impose tariffs on digital products? Can we still track their logistics in the same way as in the past? Can we still operate through the cyclical iteration between currency and goods? Wiener suggested that we need to call for a new set of values, value systems, and new social institutions to respond to the new commodity environment and market environment of the internet age. We have already seen the ideal of this new—what we call "network states," or a new kind of national order, international environment, living world. What characteristics might it have?
As intelligent systems reconstruct the boundaries of images and language, and as technology embeds itself in the frontiers of perception and imagination, how do we reinterpret the relationship between art and humanity? How is the "bodily" experience in the AI era possible? To what extent will the subjectivity and future forms of artistic creation be redefined?
This series revolves around the logic of the industrial era, the rise and fall of globalization, the production of capital and desire, the reversal of the information age, and the possibilities of Bitcoin and network states. With a historical and philosophical perspective, it inquires into the future directions of technology, capital, and human life.
——In the current environment, can people still manage using the traditional capitalist market order? Can we still impose tariffs on digital products? Can we still track their logistics in the same way as in the past? Can we still operate through the cyclical iteration between currency and goods? Wiener suggested that we need to call for a new set of values, value systems, and new social institutions to respond to the new commodity environment and market environment of the internet age. We have already seen the ideal of this new—what we call "network states," or a new kind of national order, international environment, living world. What characteristics might it have?
As intelligent systems reconstruct the boundaries of images and language, and as technology embeds itself in the frontiers of perception and imagination, how do we reinterpret the relationship between art and humanity? How is the "bodily" experience in the AI era possible? To what extent will the subjectivity and future forms of artistic creation be redefined?
Speaker | Hu Yilin
2025/2/25—2025/9/15 Total 5 sessions
Speaker | Hu Yilin
2025/2/25—2025/9/15 Total 5 sessions
Jun 25, 2025
Jun 25, 2025
"The internet is not a lawless place." — From China's "Cloud on Guizhou" to Europe's GDPR, from the AI website blocking in the United States to various countries' internet shutdowns, cyber sovereignty has long become a reality. The internet is no longer merely a forum for speech; it has become the main battlefield for AI, capital, and data. When phone numbers and wallet accounts determine your "nationality," the boundaries of the internet are being redrawn.
"The internet is not a lawless place." — From China's "Cloud on Guizhou" to Europe's GDPR, from the AI website blocking in the United States to various countries' internet shutdowns, cyber sovereignty has long become a reality. The internet is no longer merely a forum for speech; it has become the main battlefield for AI, capital, and data. When phone numbers and wallet accounts determine your "nationality," the boundaries of the internet are being redrawn.
"The internet is not a lawless place." — From China's "Cloud on Guizhou" to Europe's GDPR, from the AI website blocking in the United States to various countries' internet shutdowns, cyber sovereignty has long become a reality. The internet is no longer merely a forum for speech; it has become the main battlefield for AI, capital, and data. When phone numbers and wallet accounts determine your "nationality," the boundaries of the internet are being redrawn.
Jul 9, 2025
Jul 9, 2025
National sovereignty extends to the ends of the network, yet encounters a land without a master. Bitcoin transactions cross borders, the dark web spreads in anonymity, and the blockchain pioneers in the digital high seas like early colonizers. In this issue, we discuss: how blockchain transforms "decentralization" from an idea into action—establishing a new prototype of order in cyberspace amid the cracks of disconnection and regulation.
National sovereignty extends to the ends of the network, yet encounters a land without a master. Bitcoin transactions cross borders, the dark web spreads in anonymity, and the blockchain pioneers in the digital high seas like early colonizers. In this issue, we discuss: how blockchain transforms "decentralization" from an idea into action—establishing a new prototype of order in cyberspace amid the cracks of disconnection and regulation.
National sovereignty extends to the ends of the network, yet encounters a land without a master. Bitcoin transactions cross borders, the dark web spreads in anonymity, and the blockchain pioneers in the digital high seas like early colonizers. In this issue, we discuss: how blockchain transforms "decentralization" from an idea into action—establishing a new prototype of order in cyberspace amid the cracks of disconnection and regulation.
Jul 15, 2025
Jul 15, 2025
From the 'Treaty of Westphalia' to 'Imagined Communities', modern states are built on printing technology, capital, and industrial order, with newspapers, railways, currency, and customs forming the 'imagined boundaries'. Today, the flow of information has long since crossed the tariff lines. We discuss: As AI, algorithms, and social platforms reshape 'shared memory', is the information age giving rise to a new political form — the networked state.
From the 'Treaty of Westphalia' to 'Imagined Communities', modern states are built on printing technology, capital, and industrial order, with newspapers, railways, currency, and customs forming the 'imagined boundaries'. Today, the flow of information has long since crossed the tariff lines. We discuss: As AI, algorithms, and social platforms reshape 'shared memory', is the information age giving rise to a new political form — the networked state.
From the 'Treaty of Westphalia' to 'Imagined Communities', modern states are built on printing technology, capital, and industrial order, with newspapers, railways, currency, and customs forming the 'imagined boundaries'. Today, the flow of information has long since crossed the tariff lines. We discuss: As AI, algorithms, and social platforms reshape 'shared memory', is the information age giving rise to a new political form — the networked state.
Jul 20, 2025
Jul 20, 2025
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the Trump tariffs, Brexit, and the COVID lockdown, the illusion of globalization has shattered. But on another level, online communities, crypto economies, and DAO autonomous organizations are reorganizing order. We discuss: When countries rely on industrial assembly lines, is it possible for a net nation to organize a new public life through agreements and algorithms?
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the Trump tariffs, Brexit, and the COVID lockdown, the illusion of globalization has shattered. But on another level, online communities, crypto economies, and DAO autonomous organizations are reorganizing order. We discuss: When countries rely on industrial assembly lines, is it possible for a net nation to organize a new public life through agreements and algorithms?
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the Trump tariffs, Brexit, and the COVID lockdown, the illusion of globalization has shattered. But on another level, online communities, crypto economies, and DAO autonomous organizations are reorganizing order. We discuss: When countries rely on industrial assembly lines, is it possible for a net nation to organize a new public life through agreements and algorithms?
Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025
When McLuhan's "global village" turns into an algorithmic prison, when AI replaces workers, turning research workers into a consumable short-video format, the efficiency logic of the industrial age is compressing people. The concluding part discusses: how to break out of the supremacy of productivity? From Wiener’s concept of “non-conserving value of information” to the autonomous networks of blockchain, we explore the true meaning of network nations — allowing technology to serve human life once again.
When McLuhan's "global village" turns into an algorithmic prison, when AI replaces workers, turning research workers into a consumable short-video format, the efficiency logic of the industrial age is compressing people. The concluding part discusses: how to break out of the supremacy of productivity? From Wiener’s concept of “non-conserving value of information” to the autonomous networks of blockchain, we explore the true meaning of network nations — allowing technology to serve human life once again.
When McLuhan's "global village" turns into an algorithmic prison, when AI replaces workers, turning research workers into a consumable short-video format, the efficiency logic of the industrial age is compressing people. The concluding part discusses: how to break out of the supremacy of productivity? From Wiener’s concept of “non-conserving value of information” to the autonomous networks of blockchain, we explore the true meaning of network nations — allowing technology to serve human life once again.