Supervision session

Today I met with my supervisor Kalevi Kull for supervision. We discussed my notions of "Umwelt assemblage", "Umwelt alignment" and what I until today called "cloud Umwelten", now renamed "swarm Umwelten". These are the three last Umwelt coinages to emerge in my thesis work, and we discussed possible definitions of each of them. We further discussed my notion of "global species".

Presentation held in doctoral seminar

Two days ago I presented my thesis work in the doctoral seminar of the Department of Semiotics. Beforehand I had distributed a 4-page semi-detailed table of contents of my forthcoming dissertation. In the seminar, however, I went through a variety of visual representations of Uexküllian categories.

I did get some useful feedback - though my chronic habit of constructing new words is not to everyone's taste (but hey, that's exactly what Peirce did, to mention but one inspiring neologizing figure).