#18,5

Yesterday I had what ended up as a full book writing day, with work done related to completing (and submitting) the index of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 18,5 including 14 book writing days.

#17,5

Today (and yesterday, in part) I have had half a book writing day, with work done on the index of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 17,5 including 13 book writing days.

#17

Today I have had a book writing day, with work done on the index of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 17 including 12,5 book writing days.

#16

Today I have had a book writing day, with work done drawing on the page proofs of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. Specifically, I reformatted and reworked the index and started inserting page numbers for the index entries. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 16 including 11,5 book writing days.

#13/1; "Captured" book proposal submitted to Bloomsbury Academic

Today I have had a book writing day, the first of its kind this Spring, and writing day #13 altogether this Spring, with some 500 words added to my book manuscript Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. While I edited the Table of contents, the index, the bibliography and several chapter synopsises, most importantly, I finished and submitted my book proposal for Bloomsbury Academic.

#2

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.

See also:

"Semiotics in Ethology and Zoology" and "The study of past Umwelten" now available via ResearchGate

The 39 most read texts on my ResearchGate profile

#23

Today I have had an article writing day, with some 600 words written while adding entries to the index and making further edits in chapter 12 "Agentology" of our book Semiotic agency. The number of writing days so far this Spring is up to 23.

Google Scholar: 105 citations; h-index of 6

In Google Scholar, I am now listed with 105 citations (+6), and an h-index of 6 (meaning that six of my papers have been cited at least 6 times each, on Google´s count). My 6th paper to reach at least 6 citations is "The statistician’s guide to Utopia: The future of growth" (though these are mainly self-citations).

Total number of citations in 2015 is now up to 38.

"Thinking about animals..." book proof-read; index compiled

Friday night I finished proof-reading (along with co-editors Kristin Armstrong Oma and Silver Rattasepp) and compiling the index of the forthcoming book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene.

Now i10 index of 3 in Google Scholar, 99 citations

In Google Scholar (see my profile), I am now listed with 99 citations, an i10 index of 3 and a h-index of 5. This implies that 3 of my publications have been cited at least 10 times, and that 5 (actually, 7) of my articles have been cited 5 times each.

The count presented by Google Scholar is not entirely accurate, since it on one hand includes several self-citations, and on another does not include several citations I have found through other channels.

The figure below shows the number of citations by year in Google Scholar, with 2015 representing a peak so far with 36 citations.

The third article to reach 10 citations, after "Umwelt ethics" (2003, now 20) and "Umwelt transitions: Uexküll and environmental change" (2009, now 16), was "Steps to a semiotics of being" (2010).

"Mapping Human Impact" achieves Web of Knowledge status

Some days ago I received an email from the University of Tartu Press notifying me that my book chapter "Mapping Human Impact – Expanding Horizons: Interdisciplinary Integration" has been indexed by Web of Knowledge, via inclusion in the Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citations Index.

Tønnessen, Morten 2011. Mapping Human Impact – Expanding Horizons: Interdisciplinary Integration. Pp. 93-106 in Tiina Peil (ed.): The Space of Culture - the Place of Nature in Estonia and Beyond (= Approaches to Cultural Theory vol. 1). Tartu: Tartu University Press.

Norwegian HAS anthology proof-read; to be released May 15th

The last few weeks and months the other two editors and myself have been working with preparing Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen - menneskets tidsalder [Who is the wildes one in the country here? Brutality against animals and nature in the Anthropocene, the age of Man], for publication. The publication date has now been set to May 15th.

Work done since last post on this volume, in March, includes regular proof-reading (involving all contributors), proof-reading of the print-ready PDF, and - today - revision of the index.

Final version of cover:

Proceedings of the world congress in semiotics 2007

At long last I have received the proceedings of the 9th congress of the IASS/AIS - Helsinki-Imatra, 11-17 June, 2007, "Communication: Understanding/Misunderstanding", edited by Eero Tarasti (associated editors: Paul Forsell and Richard Littlefield). And quite a work it is, in 3 volumes (Acta Semiotica Fennica XXXIV, International Semiotics Institute, Imatra/Semiotic Society of Finland, Helsinki 2009).

My text "Where I end and you begin: The threshold of the self and the intrinsic value of the phenomenal world" appears pp. 1798-1803 (vol. III). Here, for the first time in Earth history (in print), I offer "a critique of a critique", namely of semioethics: "While I agree with several of the foundational statements of a semioethics proper, i have some critical remarks as to its present manifestation." I have now been engaged with semioethics for 2 years plus, not least through this spring's first "semioethics interviews" with John Deely, the first of which will sooner-than-ever be published. The article also contains seeds to what I now call "semiotic economy".

In the article I refer to:
David Agler
Gregory Bateson
Donald Favareau
Arne Næss
Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio
David Rothenberg
and myself ("Umwelt ethics")

The name of my article appears in the Contents (vol. I, p. xx). I ("Tonnesen") is further referred to in the Thematic index (vol. III) under the keywords "biosemiotics" (p. 1971) - but not under "ethics", nor "politics", nor "semioethics".