Link to PDF of article "The statistician´s guide to Utopia: The future of growth"

My 2008 article "The statistician´s guide to Utopia: The future of growth" is available in full-text (PDF) here.

Reference for conference abstract in book Gatherings in Biosemiotics XX

My conference abstract for the 20th gathering in biosemiotics is included in a book publication:

Tønnessen, Morten 2020c. Introducing a three-dimensional interactive semiotic model of environmental change. Pp. 308–310 in Ľudmila Lacková, Claudio J. Rodríguez H. & Kalevi Kull (eds.), Gatherings in Biosemiotics XX (Tartu Semiotics Library 20). Tartu: Tartu University Press.

The book is available for download here.

Biosemiotics 13(1) published; includes my global/Amazon human ecology article

Biosemiotics 13(1) has now appeared. This is a special issue guest-edited by Nelly Mäekivi and Riin Magnus, titled "The semiotics of hybrid natures". Table of contents here.

The issue includes my article "Current human ecology in the Amazon and beyond: A multi-scale ecosemiotic approach" (open access).

Online access to 10 year old book review granted

10 years after its publication, I have received online access to a book review of mine, namely "A stroll around the worlds of zoosemioticians and other animals", a review of Dario Martinelli´s book Zoosemiotics: Proposals for a handbook (2007) published in Semiotica.

The Biosemiotic Achievement Award for 2019 given to Hendlin´s article "I am a fake loop"

The Biosemiotic Achievement Award for 2019 has been announced, cf. the homepage of Biosemiotics. Both the announcement text (by this year´s Selection panel, Franco Giorgi and Maurita Harney) and the award-winning article, Yogi Hendlin´s "I Am a Fake Loop: the Effects of Advertising-Based Artificial Selection", are freely available online for the next two months (for reading as well as for download).

Link to future of growth article (PDF)

In the right-hand sidebar with an overview of articles available online, I have added "The Statistician´s guide to utopia: The future of growth" (2008).

Book review published at Salongen.no

I have just had a book review published. Reference:

Tønnessen, Morten 2016. En ny teori om alt? Drude von der Fehr (red.), Den levende kroppen: Mot en ny forståelse av menneske og natur. Vidarforlaget 2016. Bokanmeldelse. Salongen – nettidsskrift for filosofi og idéhistorie (Salongen.no). Published December 15th 2016. URL: http://www.salongen.no/?p=11352

Book "Animal umwelten in a changing world" freely available as PDF; for sale in print

The recently published book Animal umwelten in a changing world, co-authored and co-edited by me, is freely available for PDF download at the Directory of Open Access Books, and for sale (print copy, 23 EUR) at Tartu University Press.

See also:

New title; full reference for forthcoming book "Animal Umwelten in a changing world"

Book review of Den levende kroppen written

About a week ago I finished my book review "En ny teori om alt? Drude von der Fehr (red.), Den levende kroppen: Mot en ny forståelse av menneske og natur. Vidarforlaget 2016", which is to appear in the online Norwegian philosophy journal Salongen – nettidsskrift for filosoofi og idéhistorie.

PhilPapers

On PhilPapers I am listed with some 22 papers.

"Where I end and you begin" article now online

My article "Where I end and you begin: The threshold of the self and the intrinsic value of the phenomenal world" is now available online via my Academia.edu.profile.

Special issue "Framing nature and culture" now online

A special issue of Sign Systems Studies, guest-edited by Riin Magnus and Lauri Linask and entitled "Framing nature and culture", is now available online. 

Festschrift to Kalevi Kull now freely available online

Semiotics in the wild: Festschrift in honor of Kalevi Kull on the occasion of his 60th birthday (edited by Timo Maran, Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus and myself, Tartu university Press 2012) is now available in full text online, through Timo Maran´s Academia.edu profile.

Invited reflections on art exhibition online in English and Norwegian

My invited reflections on the arts exhibition "New Eden?" (Article biennial 2016, Sølvberget galleri, Stavanger - Norway) are available online in Norwegian and in English. They are referred to under Article biennial news (in Norwegian and English). The English version of the text is also linked to from the Facebook page of i/o lab.

Chapter on Kalevi Kull available via academia.edu

The chapter "Kalevi Kull and the rewinding of biosemiotics. Introduction" is available online via Academia.edu, here. It was co-written by Timo Maran, Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus and myself, and appeared in our 2012 Festschrift to Kalevi.

The chapter is also available via the publisher, Tartu University Press.

Reflections on New Eden

Today I composed a brief text with reflections on Article Biennial 2016 (Stavanger) - New Eden - on request, as a follow-up to my participation in a panel August 13th. The text is to appear online.

"Thinking about animals..." book in Google Books

Our book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene, published now in April by Lexington Books, is now partially available in Google Books.

Third Biosemiotics editorial published online: "Comprehending the semiosis of evolution"

Our third editorial has just been published online.

Reference:

Sharov, Alexei, Timo Maran and Morten Tønnessen (2016). Comprehending the semiosis of evolution. Editorial. Biosemiotics 9(1). Published online April 4th 2016 (DOI: 10.1007/s12304-016-9262-7).

Uexküll intro chapter available online

My 2015 chapter "Introduction: The relevance of Uexküll's Umwelt theory today", the introductory chapter of Carlo Brentari´s book Jakob von Uexküll: The Discovery of the Umwelt Between Biosemiotics and Theoretical Biology (Biosemiotics 9, Springer 2015) is available for download (given subscription) or purchase online, here. DOI is 10.1007/978-94-017-9688-0_1). The first page is available as a sample.

According to "chapter metrics" (Bookmetrix) it has been downloaded 219 times to date.

"Mapping human impact" chapter freely available online

My 2011 book chapter "Mapping Human Impact – Expanding Horizons: Interdisciplinary Integration" is freely available online (PDF format) via Oapen.org, as part of the book The Space of Culture - the Place of Nature in Estonia and Beyond (Approaches to Cultural Theory vol. 1, Tartu University Press). My article is on pp. 93-106.