#26

Today I have had half a book writing day devoted to my book Being and Sign and applying for research leave at the University of Stavanger´s faculty of Social Sciences, where I work (at Department for social studies). Apart from the book project the research leave application also includes tentative plans for application work related to the ERC Synergy Grant scheme. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 26 including 17 book writing days.

#24

Today I have had a book writing day, with work done on the second page proofs (or revised page proofs) of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which I received today. Moreover, I also pondered upon a possible publication venue for my book project Being and Sign. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 24 including 15,5 book writing days.

#35

Today I have had a book writing day, with most of it devoted to my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. Specifically, I did some research concerning industry news and other news related to climate change and particularly carbon capture and storage (CCS), and also added some 200 words to the manuscript. Moreover, I rethought and updated the timeline for my long-term writing plan concerning my next scientific monograph, Being and Sign.

This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 35, including 12 book writing days. 

#29,5

Over the course of the last three days, while attending the 22nd conference of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology (NoSP), I´ve had half a book writing day devoted to my scientific monograph in spe Being and Sign, with materials and references gathered, some thoughts made, and a little bit written. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 29,5, including 9 book writing days.

#26

Today I´ve had half a book writing day with some work done on my scientific monograph Being and Sign, to which I added some 100 words. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 26, including 8,5 book writing days.

#24,5

Today I have had a book writing day, with some 100 words added to my book manuscript in spe Being and Sign. Moreover, I researched industry news and other news related to climate change and particularly carbon capture and storage (CCS) in preparation for my forthcoming book Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. Finally, I pondered upon writing a Norwegian language philosophy text book. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 24,5, including 7,5 book writing days.

#18

Today I have had a book writing day, with research done on industry news and other news on carbon capture and storage and related topics, and the final design of the book cover chosen for my forthcoming scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism (contracted with Bloomsbury Academic). Moreover, I revised writing plans for the next month, considering when the peer-review of the manuscript will likely be in. Finally, I did some reading related to my scientific monograph in spe Being and Sign.

This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 18, including 6 book writing days.

#15,5

Today I have had a book writing day, with some 300 words added to the manuscript of my scientific monograph Being and Sign, for which I drafted (parts of?) the preface. Moreover, I researched industry news and other news on carbon capture and storage and related topics. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 15,5, including 5 book writing days.

#5,5

Today I have had a book writing day, with some 100 words written on my scientific monograph in spe Being and Sign, and - more importantly - some readings done. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 5,5, including 2 book writing days.

#2,5

Today I have had a book writing day, with some 800 words added to the manuscript of my scientific monograph in spe Being and Sign. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 2,5, including 1 book writing day.

#50,5

Today I have had  a writing day, consisting of half an article writing day, with some 400 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever, and half a book writing day, with some 150 words added to my scientific monograph in spe Being and Sign. This brings the accumulated number of writing days this Autumn (starting July 1st) up to #50,5, with a total of 18,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing, and 32 writing days devoted to bok writing, to date.

#45,5

Today I have had half a book writing day, focussed on my book manuscript in spe Being and Sign, with some 300 words added to the text. This was writing day #45,5 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 31,5 of the writing days devoted to book writing to date.

I also added to my preliminary plans for book writing over the next decade, with prospective titles including Global Species and The Natural History of the Phenomenal World.

#42,5

Today I have had a book writing day, with some 50 words added to my book manuscript in spe Being and Sign. I did some readings and mostly worked with improving the chapter disposition (with altogether 14 chapters and soon four times as many subchapters). This was writing day #42,5 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 31 of the writing days devoted to book writing to date.

#41,5

Today I have had half a book writing day, with some 450 words added to my book manuscript in spe Being and Sign. This was writing day #41,5 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 30 of the writing days devoted to book writing to date.

#39,5

Today I have had half a book writing day, with work done related to my book manuscript Being and Sign, and some 200 words added to the manuscript. This was writing day #39,5 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 29,5 of the writing days devoted to book writing to date.

#36

Today I have had half a book writing day, with some 250 words added to my book manuscript in spe Being and Sign, and a draft made of the table of contents. This was writing day #36 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 29 book writing days, to date.

This rounds up September, with 3.435 words written and 7 writing days (of which 6 article writing days).

#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.

Contemplating research leave application next year

I am contemplating applying, next autumn, for research leave at University of Stavanger for 12 months Autumn 2020 - Spring 2021, probably to write my long planned monograph Being and Sign.

Monograph named Being and Sign

My monograph in-progress, in the wake of my PhD dissertation "Umwelt transition: Uexküllian phenomenology - An ecosemiotic analysis of Norwegian wolf management" (cf. post of September 19th 2011 - and note revised time schedule), has been named Being and Sign: Umwelt Theory for the 21st Century. 

It was on July 22nd, in Tallinn, that I named it thus, on my way back from the 12th Gathering in Biosemiotics. The title is meant to refer to 1) phenomenology, 2) (bio)semiotics, and 3) Umwelt theory/Uexküll.