Two books with my chapter contributions received

Yesterday I got hold of Organ Crosstalk in Acute Kidney Injury: Basic Concepts and Clinical Practices, edited by Carlo Guido Musso & Adrian Covic, which includes my introductory chapter "Nosology and Semiotics". 

Today, back in office after a week in Colombia, I had another book waiting in my mail shelf, namely volume 4, "Life and its extensions", of Open Semiotics (L’Harmattan 2023), edited by Amir Biglari, which includes my chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners: Semiotic guidelines for application in a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology".

Descriptive phenomenology chapter published as part of "Open Semiotics"

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.

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. 

Updated reference for Open Semiotics chapter; updated publication date for 3 more publications

There is new information about the placement and publication of my chapter for Open Semiotics, which will be published in 4 volumes with 141 chapters:

— Tønnessen, Morten, forthcoming, 2022. 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. Paris: L’Harmattan. Planned for publication in December 2022.

There are also new publication dates for some other forthcoming publications, according to online info from the publishers:

—  Tønnessen, Morten, forthcoming, 2022. Semiotics in ethology and zoology. Book chapter, in Bloomsbury Semiotics (4 volumes, ed. Jamin Pelkey), volume 2, Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences (ed. Stéphanie Walsh Matthews), pp. 75–91. Bloomsbury Academic. Planned publication date November 3rd 2022. 

—  Tønnessen, Morten, forthcoming, 2022. Beyond the human animal: Towards a cross-species neurosemiotics. In Adolfo García & Agustin Ibanez (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics), pp. 82–96. Routledge. Planned publication date November 14th 2022. 

—  Tønnessen, Morten, forthcoming, 2023. Existential universals: Biosemiosis and existential semiosis. To be reprinted in Eero Tarasti, Sayantan Dasgupta and Paul Forsell (eds), Transcending Signs – Essays in Existential Semiotics (Semiotics, Communication and Cognition 35). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Planned publication date March 6, 2023.

#32,5

Today I have had an article writing day and finished my chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners", with some 1.100 words written today.

#29

Today I have had half an article writing day devoted to my chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners", with some 1.000 words written. Total number of writing days so far this autumn is up to 29.

Title, abstract for "Umwelt theory for practitioners" chapter revised

Following editorial feedback, I have renamed my chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners: Practical guidelines for a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology" "Umwelt theory for practitioners: Semiotic guidelines for application in a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology", and made a revised abstract to emphasize semiotic aspects of the theme.

See also:

To contribute to Open semiotics book with chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners"

To contribute to Open semiotics book with chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners"

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some 200 words written. Accumulated number of writing days in 2020 is up to 31.

I wrote the summary reiterated below, which is the abstract for an invited book chapter for an anthology edited by Amir Biglari, Open Semiotics.

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"Umwelt theory for practitioners: Practical guidelines for a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology" 
By Morten Tønnessen 

Descriptive phenomenology denotes a scientific method for describing lived experience, based on phenomenological philosophy. But despite the fact that classics such as Husserl and Heidegger acknowledged the existence of animal lifeworlds, descriptive phenomenology in its current forms is typically only applicable to the study of human lifeworlds. Using the semiotically framed Umwelt theory of Jakob von Uexküll as foundation allows for the development of a novel version of descriptive phenomenology that is non-anthropocentric and pluralistic. In this chapter, I introduce practical guidelines for a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology which is applicable in the study of human as well as animal lifeworlds. Whereas prominent current forms of descriptive phenomenology rely heavily on the subject´s mastery of verbal interviews and/or written accounts, i.e. the mode of human language, a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology depends primarily on participatory observation of and interaction with the subjects under study, possibly supplemented by expert interviews. In the study of animals, applied Umwelt theory can be of use e.g. to veterinarians, ethologists, and zookeepers. It is also of use to any anthropologist or social scientist that studies humans who interact with animals. By providing a scientific method informed by both ethology and semiotics, it offers researchers an invaluable tool for qualitative studies of human and animal lifeworlds separately or in relation to each other.