#11

Today I have had a book writing day, with work done in relation to the page proofs of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 11 including 6,5 book writing days.

#10

Today I have had half a book writing day, with work done in relation to the page proofs of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which I received yesterday from Integra.

This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 10 including 5,5 book writing days.

#43,5

Today I have had an article writing day, with some 100 words added to the chapter on environmental semiotics which I co-write with Jonathan Beever. I also proof-read my forthcoming chapter "Steffens´ early outlook reconsidered. Nature conceptions of the industrial-age Anthropocene", volunteered to write a book review for Biosemiotics, and considered a call for papers on the history of climate economics from the journal Œconomia – History | Methodology | Philosophy.

This was writing day #43,5 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 12,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date. According to current plans, this concludes my writing days in November, with a paltry 3 writing days altogether, and 654 words written.

#32; work on Being and Sign commenced

Today I have had a writing day, divided into half an article writing day and half a book writing day. This included adding some 100 words to the article "Når gode råd er plagsomme" (When good advice is bothersome), which I co-write with Svein Tuastad, and planning for proof-reading of the book chapter «Steffens´ early outlook reconsidered. Nature conceptions of the industrial-age Anthropocene», which is forthcoming in an anthology edited by Benedikt Jager and Marius Timmann Mjaaland and published by Karl Alber Verlag.

It also included starting writing on my next book manuscript, Being and Sign, with some 300 words written and some plans made.

This was writing day #32 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 3,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing, and 28,5 book writing days, to date.

#12,5; reference for forthcoming Sign Systems Studies article

Today I have half an article writing day, with proof-reading done on an article that will soon appear in Sign Systems Studies.

Reference:

— Tønnessen, Morten 2024, in production. Applied umwelt theory in the context of phenomenological triangulation and descriptive phenomenology. Sign Systems Studies 52 (3/4): 315–343. https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2024.52.3-4.02 

See also an earlier post, from mid-December, where I wrote that I conducted proof-reading of the same article, though that was proof-reading of a different kind - what I did today was the typeset proofs. 

So far in Spring 2025 I have had 12,5 writing days including 3 article writing days.

#20

Today I have had half an article writing day and half a book writing day. Among other things, I contributed to proof-reading of the chapter "Mars as a Planet B?" for the book Mars and the Earthlings, and wrote some 400 words on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. So far this Autumn I have had 20 writing days including 11 book writing days and 9 article writing days.

So far in October, I have now logged more than 2.000 words written altogether.

Proof-reading Mars book

Today I have contributed to proof-reading of chapters 4 and 8 of Mars and the Earthlings, which is in production.

#9,5

Today I have had half an article writing day, devoted to proof-reading my chapter for Elsevier´s forthcoming 3rd edition of Encyclopedia of Ecology, "Ecological Semiotics". So far this Autumn I have had 9,5 writing days including 5 article writing days and 4,5 book writing days.

Næss article proof-read

Today I have responded to language washing / proofs of the article "Hva Arne Næss kan lære oss om økonomifagets tverrfaglighet" (What Arne Næss can teach us about the interdisciplinary nature of economics), which I have co-written with Jan Karlstrøm and Thomas Hylland Eriksen and which will appear in issue 1/2, 2024, of Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift.

#27

Today I have had an article writing day, writing day #27 this Spring, with work done on various writing projects, including:

Doing some searching and thinking about possible journal for the GDP review article I co-write with Jan Karlstrøm

Confirming that I will write a second chapter on the work of Henrik Steffens, and coming up with the work-title "Steffens´ early outlook reconsidered: Nature conceptions of the industrial-age Anthropocene", and composing/extracting some 200 words in the process

Looking through some suggestions concerning the article on Arne Næss and economics which I co-write with Jan Karlstrøm and Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Proof-reading my chapter "A Biosemiotic Perspective on the Human Condition and the Environmental Crisis" for the book Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era.

Choosing a work-title for the first follow-up to my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", namely "Wasted GDP in major economies: With time series data", and starting on a manuscript file

 See also:

Second Steffens chapter invited and planned for

#18

Yesterday and today I have had half a writing day, proof-reading my forthcoming article "Wasted GDP in the USA", which will soon appear in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

"Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2022" proof-read

I have just completed the proof-reading for our brief article "Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2022", which I have co-written with Ludmila Lackova and Anti-Veikko Juhani Pietarinen, and which is due to be published in Biosemiotics.

#52,5

Today I have had half a writing day - during my summer vacation - with some 300 words added to my text on experiential and behavioural challenges for the book Mars and the Earthlings, and my chapter "Nosology and semiotics" proof-read. This is writing day #52,5 this year.

#44,5

Today I have had half a writing day, with my article "The study of past Umwelten" proof-read (pre-print version), and some info gone through regarding my contribution to the book Mars and the Earthlings. 

#41,5

Today I have had a writing day, no. 41,5 this Spring, with my article "The study of past Umwelten" proof-read, and a couple of things added to our article on Arne Næss and his view on economics. I also pondered upon two new article ideas, one on "The wolf Umwelt" and another one on extraterrestrial Umwelten (astrobiology).

#8

Today I have had the 8th writing day so far this Spring, with work done on my "Open semiotics" chapter (proof reading), our GDP review article, and our article on Arne Næss´ view on economics.

Updated reference for "Umwelt theory for practitioners"

Today I am proof-reading this chapter, which has updated bibliographical info:

Tønnessen, Morten, forthcoming, 2023. Umwelt theory for practitioners: Semiotic guidelines for application in a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology. In Open Semiotics (4 volumes, ed. Amir Biglari), volume 4: Life and its extensions, pp. 303–314. Paris: L’Harmattan. 

#2

Today I have had a writing day devoted to proof-reading of my forthcoming neurosemiotics chapter and Bloomsbury semiotics chapter (Semiotics in ethology and zoology). Number of writing days so far this Autumn is up to 2.

#1

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some response given on and about 100 words added to our review article on GDP, and some proof-reading done on my neurosemiotics chapter. Number of writing days this Autumn is up to 1.

#0,5

Today I have had the first half writing day this Autumn semester, with some planning done, and proof-reading of the reprint of my text "Existential semiosis" (cf. previous post), among other things.