Yuk!

Yuk!
Author: Kes Gray
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1998-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781862306639

Auntie Sue is getting married and she's asked Daisy to be her bridesmaid. But Daisy doesn't do dresses and she certainly doesn't do lovely. Daisy wants to wear a football kit, or scuba gear, or her leopard skin suit, but Mum and Auntie Sue drag her off to the dress shop. Daisy thinks everything is 'Yuk!' until she finally manages to strike a deal and design her own dress . . .

The Question Concerning Technology in China

The Question Concerning Technology in China
Author: Yuk Hui
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2016-09-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0995455007

A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics. Heidegger's critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one—originally Greek—type of technics has been an obstacle to any original critical thinking of technology in modern Chinese thought. Yuk Hui argues for the urgency of imagining a specifically Chinese philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger's challenge, while problematizing the affirmation of technics and technologies as anthropologically universal. This investigation of the historical-metaphysical question of technology, drawing on Lyotard, Simondon, and Stiegler, and introducing a history of modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani, sheds new light on the obscurity of the question of technology in China. Why was technics never thematized in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a real question for Chinese philosophy? How was the traditional concept of Qi transformed in its relation to Dao as China welcomed technological modernity and westernization? In The Question Concerning Technology in China, a systematic historical survey of the major concepts of traditional Chinese thinking is followed by a startlingly original investigation of these questions, in order to ask how Chinese thought might today contribute to a renewed, cosmotechnical questioning of globalized technics.

Art and Cosmotechnics

Art and Cosmotechnics
Author: Yuk Hui
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1452963991

In light of current discourses on AI and robotics, what do the various experiences of art contribute to the rethinking of technology today? Art and Cosmotechnics addresses the challenge of technology to the existence of art and traditional thought, especially in light of current discourses on artificial intelligence and robotics. It carries out an attempt on the cosmotechnics of Chinese landscape painting in order to address this question, and further asks: What is the significance of shanshui (mountain and water) in face of the new challenges brought about by the current technological transformation? Thinking art and cosmotechnics together is an attempt to look into the varieties of experiences of art and to ask what these experiences might contribute to the rethinking of technology today.

Yuk! Said Baby Duck (English grammar through stories)

Yuk! Said Baby Duck (English grammar through stories)
Author: Karen King
Publisher: Vishv Books Private Limited
Total Pages: 9
Release: 2013-07-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9350653583

Read & Learn series is for young children who are eager to know and learn. The stories in this series are written with an understanding of children's natural curiosity and their ways of thinking. Dealing with various themes, the stories are beautifully interwoven with lesser-known interesting facts that are brief enough for the young reader to cope with. English Grammar through stories aims to make grammar an interesting element of story time. This book is for:- 2-5 years for reading aloud and 5-7 years for independent reading.

Kisses Are Yuk!

Kisses Are Yuk!
Author: Julia Jarman
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2008
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780340944813

Jack loves getting prizes and cups of all sizes, but if there's one thing he hates... it's being kissed! And with an army of aunts and uncles, there's no getting away from it. What's a boy to do?

On the Existence of Digital Objects

On the Existence of Digital Objects
Author: Yuk Hui
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2016-02-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452949921

Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today—as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog posts, Facebook events.Yet, despite their ubiquity, the nature of digital objects remains unclear. On the Existence of Digital Objects conducts a philosophical examination of digital objects and their organizing schema by creating a dialogue between Martin Heidegger and Gilbert Simondon, which Yuk Hui contextualizes within the history of computing. How can digital objects be understood according to individualization and individuation? Hui pursues this question through the history of ontology and the study of markup languages and Web ontologies; he investigates the existential structure of digital objects within their systems and milieux. With this relational approach toward digital objects and technical systems, the book addresses alienation, described by Simondon as the consequence of mistakenly viewing technics in opposition to culture. Interdisciplinary in philosophical and technical insights, with close readings of Husserl, Heidegger, and Simondon as well as the history of computing and the Web, Hui’s work develops an original, productive way of thinking about the data and metadata that increasingly define our world.

Recursivity and Contingency

Recursivity and Contingency
Author: Yuk Hui
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-01-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1786600544

This book is an investigation of algorithmic contingency and an elucidation of the contemporary situation that we are living in: the regular arrival of algorithmic catastrophes on a global scale. Through a historical analysis of philosophy, computation and media, this book proposes a renewed relation between nature and technics.

DON'T YUCK MY YUM!

DON'T YUCK MY YUM!
Author: Amy Pleimling
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2013-11-22
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 149312367X

Have you ever sat down to a plate of your favorite food and the person next to you says “Yuck! That is GROSS!”? “Don’t yuck my yum” can be your reply, “you might like it too if you try.” “Don’t Yuck My Yum!” is a book that teaches some basic healthy eating concepts to kids and parents in a fun and unique way. Children will learn that saying negative things about food can affect the food choices and eating habits of others. Throughout the book, readers will learn other valuable nutrition messages, like how important it is to try new foods and to eat foods that are many different colors. The mission of DYMY is to encourage kids and parents to learn about healthy eating together in a fun way so that habits are formed early on in life that they will carry into adulthood.

Yum! Yuck!

Yum! Yuck!
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1570916594

At a busy street market, kids eating ice cream exclaim, "Yum!" in English, "Geshmak!" in Yiddish, and "Nam-nam!" in Danish. But disaster strikes when a little dog overturns a spice cart, showering pepper on everyone's ice cream. Will the kids end up crying, "Hai hai," or cheering, "¡Yupi!"? Energetic art and a lift-the-flap feature make exploring languages fun.