#11

Today I have had an article writing day, #11 this Spring. I have assessed and done minor editing in the article "Hva Arne Næss kan lære oss om økonomifagets tverrfaglighet" (direct translation: What Arne Næss can teach us about the interdisciplinary of economics), and submitted it to Agora on behalf of Jan Karlstrøm, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and myself. I further revised my letter to the editor of Biosemiotics titled "Understanding subjecthood and experience" by adding a paragraph on request, and resubmitted it. Finally, I did some editing of and commenting on text for Mars and the Earthlings. Altogether I wrote some 250 words.

#9

Today I have had the 9th writing day this Autumn, an article writing day devoted to finishing the article "Hva Arne Næss kan lære oss om økonomifagets tverrfaglighet" which I am co-writing with Jan Karlstrøm and Thomas Hylland Eriksen, with some 550 words written.

#6

Today I have had the 6th article writing day this Spring, with work done on the article on Arne Næss´ views on economics that I co-write with Jan Karlstrøm and Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Article on human distinctiveness not accepted for publication in Agora

On April 22nd, I was notified that my article "Menneskedyret og dets plass i verden" [The human animal and its place in the world], written on invitation by guest-editor of an issue of the Norwegian philosophy journal Agora, Roar Høstaker, had not been accepted for publication. His explanation was, mainly, that my manuscript spanned over too many diverse topics without going sufficiently in depth. I declined to conduct radical revisions.

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Article to be written to special issue of Agora: How unique/distinctive is the human kind?

Article to be written to special issue of Agora: How unique/distinctive is the human kind?

In February I was contacted by Roar Høstaker, guest editor of a forthcoming Special Issue of the Norwegian academic journal Agora (Ragnar Myklebust, the guest editor of another forthcoming Special Issue of the same journal, had contacted me a couple of weeks earlier, and communicated my name to Høstaker). The theme of the Special Issue is "livspolitikk" (politics of life - something akin to yet narrower than Foucalt's 'biopolitics').

The theme of my contribution, which is due February 1st 2014, will be the question of how unique/distinctive the human kind is in comparison with other animals/creatures, based on Umwelt theory (and secondarily - or in parallel - Jakob von Uexküll's own view in this context). It is further likely that I willl touch upon David Abram's book Becoming Animal and Dominique Lestel's claim that the animal is the future of Man. The Special Issue will appear as Agora no. 3/2014.