Today I have had half an article writing day, with work done revising my article "Prolegomena to lifeworld-oriented studies of contested climate pasts and futures" which has been submitted to Journal of Cognitive Historiography. In the process I added some 150 words to the manuscript. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 22 including 7,5 article writing days.
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Book review "A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare" published in Biosemiotics
A book review I have written has just been published in Biosemiotics.
Reference:
Tønnessen, Morten 2026. A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare. Book review of Xany Jansen van Vuuren, Interpreting, communication and animal welfare. An ecosemiotic analysis of interspecies translation, De Gruyter Mouton 2025. Biosemiotics. Published online October 9th 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-026-09668-8
Today I have had half an article writing day, with work done in relation to the interview that Federico Comollo has conducted with Michael Marder and me, and proof-reading conducted for my book review of Xany Jansen van Vuuren´s book Interpreting, communication and animal welfare. An ecosemiotic analysis of interspecies translation, titled "A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare", which is forthcoming in Biosemiotics. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 21,5 including 7 article writing days.
I have been notified, today, that my book review of Xany Jansen van Vuuren´s book Interpreting, communication and animal welfare. An ecosemiotic analysis of interspecies translation, has been accepted for publication by Biosemiotics.
Preliminary reference:
— Tønnessen, Morten, forthcoming. A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare. Book review of Xany Jansen van Vuuren, Interpreting, communication and animal welfare. An ecosemiotic analysis of interspecies translation, De Gruyter Mouton 2025. Biosemiotics.
Today I have had an article writing day, with some 650 words added to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare by Xany Jansen van Vuuren for Biosemiotics, during revisions requested by the journal. In the process I changed the title of the book review from "A primer on ecosemiotics and animal welfare" to "A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare", and resubmitted.
This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 20 including 5,5 article writing days. This was the first article writing day for more than a month (the last was in late August).
Today I have had an article writing day, with some 1.200 words added to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare by Xany Jansen van Vuuren for Biosemiotics in the process of finishing and submitting it. My review is titled "A primer on ecosemiotics and animal welfare". This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 3 including 2,5 article writing days.
Today I have had half a book writing day, with some planning made for the production process for my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. I also received copy-edited files and information about the production process from the book´s project manager at Integra Software Services, a company based in India which Bloomsbury Academic uses for producing my book.
Moreover, I had half an article writing day, with some 400 words added to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics.
This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 2 including 1,5 article writing days and 0,5 book writing days.
Today I´ve had what ended up as half an article writing day and half a book writing day, upon receiving, at last, the peer-review of my book manuscript Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism from Bloomsbury Academic. I have today reworked writing plans for May and June considering the revision work I will now start with. Moreover, I did a little work on my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics.
This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 33, including 23 article writing days and 10 book writing days.
Today I´ve had what ended up as half an article writing day, with some rearrangement of writing day plans done, some 100 words added to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics, and some 100 words added to my manuscript "Prospective lifeworld-oriented studies of contested climate pasts and futures" which is aimed for a special issue of Journal of Cognitive Historiography about "Cognition and Evolution in Historical and Social Research".
This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 31, including 22 article writing days. In April, I logged only 5,5 writing days (specifically, 4,5 article writing days and 1 book writing day), and 812 words written.
Over the course of last Friday and today I´ve had an article writing day, with work done related to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics. Also, at work, I received my print copy of Philosophising with rocks: Henrik Steffens and the Anthropocene (eds. Benedikt Jager and Marius Timmann Mjaaland), which includes my chapter "Steffen´s early outlook reconsidered. Nature conceptions of the industrial-age Anthropocene".
This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 29, including 20,5 article writing days.
Today I´ve had half an article writing day, with work done related to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics. Also, I took note that four Store Norske Leksikon encyclopedia entries I have previously suggested edits to have now been updated - specifically, this concerns the entries "Albert Schweitzer", "bærekraftig utvikling", "etikk", and "miljøbevegelsen". This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 28, including 19,5 article writing days.
Today I´ve had half an article writing day, with work done related to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 27,5, including 19 article writing days.
Today I´ve had what ended up as half an article writing day, with some work done on my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics and some initial work done on my climate change-themed article for a special issue of Journal of Cognitive Historiography, work-titled "Prospective lifeworld-oriented studies of contested climate pasts and futures". I also rearranged my writing plans for the next few weeks.
This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 26,5, including 18 article writing days.
Today I have had what ended up as half an article writing day, with some initial work done in relation to my planned book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics. Moreover, I added some 100 words to my Salongen article on longtermism, "På sporet av en tapt fremtid" (roughly translating to "In search of a lost future"), and finished and submitted the article to Salongen - nettidsskrift for filosofi og idéhistorie. Finally, I pondered about whether or not I had any essential corrections for the forthcoming paperback edition of Bloomsbury semiotics, which includes my chapter "Semiotics in Ethology and Zoology". This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 20,5, including 14,5 article writing days.
My book review "Kritisk realisme for viderekomne samfunnsvitere", which appeared in issue 2, 2025 of Fontene Forskning, is now also available as an online article.
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Book review on critical realism published in Fontene Forskning
Today I have been notified that my book review of Critical Realism for Health and Social Research, edited by May-Britt Solem and Dag Jenssen (Routledge, 2025) has been published in Fontene forskning.
Reference:
Tønnessen, Morten 2025: Kritisk realisme for viderekomne samfunnsvitere. Book review. Fontene forskning 2025 18 (2): 89–90.
Today I have had an article writing day, with some 850 words added to a book review I am writing for Fontene Forskning of the book Critical Realism for Health and Social Reseach (eds. May-Britt Solem and Dag Jenssen). I finished and submitted the book review, titled "Kritisk realisme for viderekomne samfunnsvitere". Altogether in October I logged 2.077 words written. This was writing day #40,5 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 11 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date.
Today I have had an article writing day, with coordination and planning work done in relation to the article "Når gode råd er plagsomme" (When good advice is bothersome), which I co-write with Svein Tuastad, and preparatory work done in relation to a book review I have committed to write for Fontene Forskning. This was writing day #39 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 10 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date.
Tønnessen, Morten 2019. Lars Fr. H. Svendsen: Å forstå dyr: Filosofi for hunde- og katteelskere. Book review. Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 54(3): 187–190. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-2901-2019-03-06
