Today I have had a writing day, the 3rd this Autumn, focussed on my re-working of my so-called UNDP letter, now aimed for Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. I have also updated myself on the UNDP´s work towards HDR 2023.
Today I have had a writing day, the 2nd this Autumn, with some 250 words added to my book manuscript Captured: The fight for the soul of the environmental movement. For now I am still working on expanding the bibliography and index. I have also worked a little on the accessability of my published works via ResearchGate.
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"Semiotics in Ethology and Zoology" and "The study of past Umwelten" now available via ResearchGate
86 of my research publications/items are currently listed on my ResearchGate profile. These are the most read (100+ reads):
1. Introduction: The semiotics of animal representations 4.000
3. The Ethics of Laying Hen Genetics 2.254
4. Animal Umwelten in a Changing World. Zoosemiotic Perspectives 921
5. Umwelt ethics 794
6. How Can the Study of the Humanities Inform the Study of Biosemiotics? 793
7. Call for papers: Umwelt Theory and Phenomenology - Special Issue of Biosemiotics 552
7. Menneskedyret og dets plass i verden (unpublished) 552
9. Umwelt Transitions: Uexküll and Environmental Change 530
10. “Darwin und die englische Moral”: The Moral Consequences of Uexküll’s Umwelt Theory 524
11. A World of Signs - In Memory of John Deely (1942-2017) 459
12. Jesper Hoffmeyer’s Biosemiotic Legacy 453
13. Interview on biosemiotic ethics with Wendy Wheeler 446
14. The First Decade of Biosemiotics 320
15. Introducing Biosemiotic Ethics 280
16. Analyse av partiprogrammer for 2013-2017 utført for Dyreetikkonferansen 2013 261
17. Comprehending the Semiosis of Evolution 253
18. Towards Synthesis of Biology and Semiotics 246
19. Phenomenology and Biosemiotics 202
20. Visjon 2040: Fra overlagt rovdrift til Utopi Buane (unpublished) 201
21. Historicising the Cultural Semiotics of Wolf and Sheep 197
23. Uexküllian phenomenology 194
24. The statistician's guide to Utopia: The future of growth 188
25. Umwelt and Language 186
26. Introduction: The Relevance of Uexküll’s Umwelt Theory Today 183
27. Organisms Reshape Sign Relations 177
28. The ontogeny of the embryonic, foetal and infant human umwelt 170
29. Human development, inequality and social risks in Latin-America and the Nordic countries 159
30. The Biosemiotic Glossary Project: Umwelt 143
31. Semiotic Agency, Science beyond Mechanism 141
33. The Evolutionary Origin(s) of the Umwelt 131
34. Semiogenesis* 116
35. The search image as link between sensation, perception and action 111
37. Justifying Moral Standing by Biosemiotic Particularism 105
* chapter in the book Semiotic Agency, Science beyond Mechanism
Of these 39 texts with 100+ reads on ResearchGate, 2 are call for papers, 2 texts are unpublished (written in Norwegian), the rest are scientific, published texts. 32 are related to biosemiotics, 3 to animal welfare, 2 to economics (#24, #29), of which 1 to human welfare (#29).
I have made two more publications available via ResearchGate (stored privately, can be shared on request):
Today I have had the first work day, and first writing day, in the Autumn semester (which officially only begins mid-August), with writing plans made for the Autumn, and a little work on our GDP review article and my UNDP letter.
I have made calendar plans for writing this autumn, with 35,5 writing days scheduled as of now, including 3 now in July. Also this Autumn, I plan to present at 6 conferences (including 1 digitally and 1 locally, 4 abroad), and I will give a full course.
In Spring 2023, I had 52,5 writing days, compared to 57 originally planned (3 writing days, eventually planned for this July, were transferred to Autumn 2023). Altogether I wrote 23.721 words. On average this results in 452 words per writing day.
The number of writing days compares to 54,5 in Spring 2020, 49,5 in Spring 2021, and 45,5 in Spring 2022. At 52,5, it is slightly higher than the two previous years, but not at record levels.
The volume of words written compares to 25.819 words written in Spring 2021, and 20.781 words written in Spring 2022, while I was still head of department (I wrote only 11.826 words Autumn 2022, my last semester as Head of department). In Spring 2020, I wrote 45.161 words. At 23.721 words, Spring 2023 is not so different from the two last Spring semesters in terms of productivity.
Among what I got done in Spring 2023, was writing the article "The study of past Umwelten" (published this summer in Discipline Philosofiche) and the book chapter "A biosemiotic perspective on the human condition and the environmental crisis" (forthcoming), substantially revising the article now titled "Wasted GDP in the USA" (in review), and working on two articles with Jan Karlstrøm (one of them with Thomas Hylland Eriksen as a further co-author). I have also written a brief contribution to the book Mars and the Earthlings.
Our book chapter "Introduction: The semiotics of animal representations", authored by me and Kadri Tüür, from the book The semiotics of animal representations (Rodopi - now Brill, 2014) has reached 4.000 reads at ResearchGate.
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.
The 4 books comprising Open Semiotics, edited by Amir Biglari, have now been published, according to the publisher, L´Harmattan´s website. My chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners: Semiotic guidelines for application in a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology" appears in volume 4, "Life and its extensions".
Reference:
— Tønnessen, Morten 2023. Umwelt theory for practitioners: Semiotic guidelines for application in a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology. Pp. 303–314 in Open Semiotics (4 volumes, ed. Amir Biglari), volume 4: Life and its extensions. Paris: L’Harmattan.
An opinion piece I wrote today, "Hvor grønt har Universitetet i Stavanger blitt?" (in reply to Harald N. Røstvik´s opinion piece "Er UIS fortsatt "Oljeuniversitetet i Stavanger"?") has been published in Khrono.
Our open letter on dog breeding has today been published as a chronicle in the print edition of the Norwegian daily VG.
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I am one of ca. 70 signatories of an open letter that was published as a chronicle in the Norwegian daily VG today, "Humdeavl må endres" (Breeding of dogs must change).
I have been notified by the conference organizers that my paper «Wasted GDP in the USA» has been scheduled for presentation as part of Session 6J, “Well-being Indicators” at 2023 International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies 21st Annual Conference: "Toward a People First Economy: A World to Win" (Rotterdam, the Netherlands, August 21-26th). The session takes place Wednesday August 23rd at 9-10:30 am., with my paper scheduled for 9.44-10.06.
See the preliminnary conference program - as well as authors overview and keywords overview.
I have agreed to take part in the panel discussion "Kan norsk landbruk tilby et liv verdt å leve?" (Can Norwegian agriculture offer a life worth living?) which will be arranged by Matprat and others during Arendalsuka 2023, on Wednesday August 16th. I will take part in the panel representing Norway´s Council for animal ethics.
