Category: Unit1
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Comment on ‘How Digital Technology Reconstructs Memory Transmission and Identity of Chinese Families?’ Preliminary Conceptualisation
The need for digital entities: Daniel Miller’s material culture research starts from consumption, and regards mass consumption as a creation belonging to the lower levels of human behaviour, the main way for contemporary people to create their own exclusive private life, with the positivity and creativity to resist the vertical of the mainstream ideology; Consumption…
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Perceptions and definitions of human’s ‘symbols’
In my perspective, the human is made of ‘symbols’. But this hermeneutic is too abstract. I hope to sort out my definition and perception of ‘symbols’ through this writing. Firstly, Ernst Cassirer refers to man as a symbolic animal in his book, Theory of Man: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Human Culture. Specific symbols…