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1【聊了什么 The What】
海德格尔在 1938 年说过一句话：世界进入了一个"图像化的时代"——它不再和我们一起存在，而是变成了一个被观察、被研究、被掌握的对象。
这期是《选修课》在狂喜播客节攒的一个四方连线，每人填一个半命题：世界是一个 ______。
物理学家老赵填的是钟表，传播学者方可成填的是洞穴，残障研究者仁慈填的是巨大的楼梯，律师 Lokin 填的是草台班子。
四张图像并置起来，照见了现代性的一些隐秘脉络——为什么我们这么依赖量化？为什么"客观"成了一个越来越站不住脚的承诺？神死之后我们靠什么获得确定性？以及，AI 时代，我们是该悲观还是乐观？
In 1938, Heidegger wrote that the world had entered "the age of the world picture" — no longer something we inhabit alongside, but something to be observed, st…In 1938, Heidegger wrote that the world had entered "the age of the world picture" — no longer something we inhabit alongside, but something to be observed, studied, and mastered as an object.
This episode is a four-way crossover recorded for the Kuangxi Podcast Festival, hosted by Elective Course. Each guest was asked to fill in a blank: The world is a ______.
Physicist Lao Zhao filled in a clockwork. Communications scholar Fang Kecheng filled in a cave. Disability studies scholar Mercy filled in a giant staircase. Lawyer Lokin filled in a slapdash operation.
Placed side by side, the four images expose some of the hidden grain of modernity — why we've grown so dependent on quantification, why "objectivity" has become an increasingly untenable promise, what we turn to for certainty after the death of God, and whether, in the age of AI, we should be pessimistic or optimistic.
【时间轴 The When 】
02:44 为何我们需要拆解世界的"复数图像"？
10:48 钟表宇宙图景：上帝作为第一推动力与永恒运行的规则
13:13 主客体二分法：当自然成为被征服的对象
20:55 还原论的代价：从"第一性原理"到互联网的"可扩展性"神话
26:53 李普曼的《公众舆论》：揭秘我们脑海中的"伪环境"
30:34 柏拉图洞穴寓言：当影像取代真实，人们为何拒绝走出洞穴？
38:39 空间感知：为何纽约对不同身体来说既是天堂又是地狱？
45:31 视觉中心主义批判：图像比喻背后的感官局限
49:56 《阿凡达》的政治隐喻：前现代神圣秩序与现代性治理的对比
58:59 为何我们突然觉得世界是个"草台班子"？
1:08:43 美国宪政如何通过模糊性运行250年
1:12:30 法律界暴论：法官、律师的利益博弈与AI对法律文书的挑战
1:18:32 AI认识论：材料与观点的二分法是否依然有效？
1:23:00 算法的"进步"：科技公司如何在AI中人为矫正偏见
02:44 Why do we need to break the world into "plural images"?
10:48 The clockwork universe: God as the prime mover and the eternal rules of motion
13:13 The subject-object split: when nature becomes something to be conquered
20:55 The cost of reductionism: from "first principles" to the myth of internet "scalability"
26:53 Lippmann's Public Opinion: unpacking the "pseudo-environment" in our heads
30:34 Plato's allegory of the cave: when shadows replace the real, why do we refuse to step out?
38:39 Spatial perception: why is New York both heaven and hell, depending on the body?
45:31 Against ocularcentrism: the sensory limits hidden in the metaphor of "image"
49:56 The politics of Avatar: pre-modern sacred order vs. modern governance
58:59 Why does the world suddenly feel like a "slapdash operation"?
1:08:43 How America's constitutional system has run for 250 years on ambiguity
1:12:30 A hot take on law: judges, lawyers, conflicts of interest, and the AI challenge to legal writing
1:18:32 AI and epistemology: does the split between sources and viewpoints still hold?
1:23:00 The "progress" baked into algorithms: how tech companies manually correct AI's biases
【我们是谁 The Who】
选修课 Universus 是一档分享和探讨泛文化话题的中文播客，脱胎于2013年创办的纽约文化沙龙。我们力求引发对学科方法和视角的认知和思考，而不仅仅是知识的传递。我们在组织活动的过程中积累了一些经验和人脉，尝试打造成年人的博雅教育，并在播客中拓展这样的探索。我们希望审视和反抗无意识的价值规训与随波逐流。我们希望冷酷地剖析自己的偏见，热忱地拥抱多元视角。我们希望去工具化，真诚地感知、理解、创造自己的生活和复杂的世界。我们追随原初的好奇而非代餐式的猎奇。话题可以轻松，方法力求严肃。在《选修课》里，我们互相映照，唤醒失落的维度。
选修课 Universus is a Chinese-language podcast created by the same people who founded the New York Chinese Cultural Salon (纽约文化沙龙）in 2013.The past decade of organizing events and talks put us in a position of creating a sort of liberal arts education experience for those who have left school. We strive to go beyond merely transmitting knowledge to reflecting on complex topics using cross-disciplinary perspectives. We strive to resist conformity, to dissect our own biases, and to embrace diverse schools of thought. Our goal is to help professionals resist becoming just a tool of production, and to understand the world around us in earnest. We let our genuine curiosity be our guide. With a light-hearted tone, we approach each topic seriously. We hope that “选修课 Universus” creates a space to explore lost dimensions.
主讲人：
老赵：《选修课 Universus》主播
方可成：《实验室 Newslab Podcast》、《放晴早安》主播
Lokin：《美轮美换 The American Roulette》主播
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