#54,5

Today I have had an article writing day with some 500 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever, which we are finishing and submitting today. This brings the final accumulated number of writing days this Autumn (starting July 1st) up to #54,5, with a total of 22,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing, and 32 writing days devoted to book writing.

December totals: 6.152 words written

Autumn totals: 42.010 words written

Year totals: 98.777 words written (the most on record)

#53,5

Today I have had an article writing day with some 550 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever. This brings the accumulated number of writing days this Autumn (starting July 1st) up to #53,5, with a total of 21,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date.

#52,5

Today I have had an article writing day with some 400 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever. This brings the accumulated number of writing days this Autumn (starting July 1st) up to #52,5, with a total of 20,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date.

#51,5

Today I have had an article writing day with some 700 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever. This brings the accumulated number of writing days this Autumn (starting July 1st) up to #51,5, with a total of 19,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date.

#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.

#49,5

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some 300 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever. This was writing day #49,5 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 18 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date. 

#49

Today I have had an article writing day, with some 600 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever. This was writing day #49 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 17,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date. 

#48

Today I have had what (following geopolitical intrigues involving the state of Florida) ended up with half an article writing day, with some 600 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever. This was writing day #48 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 16,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date.

#47,5

Today I have had an article writing day, with some 700 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever. This was writing day #47,5 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 16 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date.

#46,5

Today I have had an article writing day, with some 100 words added to Store Norske Leksikon articles via suggested edits. This included edits in the encyclopedia entries "ulvejakt" (wolf hunting), "sansene", "primær egenskap", "lisensfelling", "jakt", "rovviltforvaltning", "ulv - pelsverk" and "ulv i folketro og symbolikk", and two suggested images for the "ulvejakt" entry.

Moreover, I added some 300 words the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever.

This was writing day #46,5 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 15 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date.

#43,5

Today I have had an article writing day, with some 100 words added to the chapter on environmental semiotics which I co-write with Jonathan Beever. I also proof-read my forthcoming chapter "Steffens´ early outlook reconsidered. Nature conceptions of the industrial-age Anthropocene", volunteered to write a book review for Biosemiotics, and considered a call for papers on the history of climate economics from the journal Œconomia – History | Methodology | Philosophy.

This was writing day #43,5 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 12,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date. According to current plans, this concludes my writing days in November, with a paltry 3 writing days altogether, and 654 words written.

#41

Today I have had what ended up as half an article writing day, with planning and outline work done in relation to a philosophy handbook chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever on environmental semiotics in the context of environmental philosophy. This was writing day #41 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with a total of 11,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date.

#30

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some 100 words added to the chapter "Environmental semiotics", which I co-write with Jonathan Beever for Springer´s Handbook of environmental philosophy.  This was writing day #30 this Autumn (starting July 1st), with 2 days devoted to article writing days so far.

To co-write Handbook of environmental philosophy chapter on environmental semiotics

I have agreed to co-write a chapter for Springer´s forthcoming Handbook of Environmental Philosophy along with Jonathan Beever. 

Preliminary reference:

 — in process, with Jonathan Beever: Environmental semiotics. In: Nathan Kowalsky and Richard Kover (eds.), Handbook of Environmental Philosophy (Handbooks in Philosophy), Section II: Main Theoretical Currents. Springer Nature.

Unsuccessful research application

I have just been informed - though the decision is not that fresh - that the application for a research project entitled "Environmental Semiotics: Theory and applications in changing culture and environment" failed to get funding. In the application I was included as an Extraordinary Researcher with full work load (research) - though I was later told who would actually be included, and with what kind of role, would only be decided following a positive answer.

The external reviewer noted that

this research has the potential to place the Tartu School of Semiotics within international Environmental Humanities. [...] The proposal is, however, too semiotical in the sense that it lives in its theoretical fields without making too many contacts to practice and concrete problems.

Cf. previous posts:
* Application for research project 2011-2016
* Prospects for further wolf research?

Prospects for further wolf research?

As mentioned previously I am involved in an application for a 2011-2016 research project on Environmental semiotics, based at University of Tartu's Department of Semiotics. The last few weeks I have pondered about what I could do, if it proves successful (and if my role as a researcher is confirmed).

There's plenty of meaningful work to be done - including, on the travel scene, visits to destinations in Norway, Sweden, Estonia and beyond (Yellowstone, Wolf park, Alaska, Canada, Russia).

So far I have been working with wolves (some of them being more cooperative than others) since 2006.

State grant holder

I have been informed that the University of Tartu has decided that I am (as a PhD student at Department of Semiotics) to receive an Estonian state grant from October to December. The state grant is 6.000 Estonian Kroons (EEK) per month - approximately 3.100 NOK or 384 Euro.

The grant has not been given before because thus far I've received a monthly stipend partaking in the research project "The Cultural heritage of Environmental Spaces" (where my participation ended in September). If successful, an application for a new research project, "Environmental Semiotics: Theory and Applications in Changing Culture and Environment" would imply me being an 'Extraordinary researcher' with full work-load starting January 2011.

Application for research project 2011-2016

I am involved in an application for the prospective research project "Environmental Semiotics: Theory and applications in changing culture and environment". Timo Maran is the project's Principal Investigator and head. Through the project, which would span over the years 2011-2016 (until I'm 40...), I would have a research position (full work load), with the title 'Extraordinary researcher'. Other scholars involved include Jelena Grigorjeva, Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus, Ene-Reet Soovik, Renata Sõukand and Kadri Tüür.

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If the application proves successful, it will imply that I establish ties to the University of Tartu for the years after I have completed my PhD (beyond my obligations partaking in the research project Dynamical Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations, until 2012).