2011 article "Perception and the levels of biosemiosis" perhaps to be reworked

I have received peer reviews of my 2011 article "Perception and the levels of biosemiosis", which was initially submitted to proceedings of the conference NASS VII (see previous posts). They are more or less critical, but I have been invited to rewrite and then resubmit. The plan for the NASS VII articles is now to publish them in the journal Cognitive Semiotics.

No contribution to Sofia proceedings (Introducing biosemiotic ethics)

Due to tough priorities before and after Christmas (with one full week of family holiday, Insh Allah), I have decided not to submit an article to the proceedings for the 12th World congress of semiotics (Sofia September 16-19th 2014) (see previous posts). My talk was entitled "Introducing biosemiotic ethics".

"Perception and the levels of biosemiosis" to appear in print?

The main organizer of the 7th conference of the Nordic association for semiotic studies, Göran Sonesson, has announced that there will indeed be conference proceedings. Deadline for submissions has been set to October 24th.

At present, we have two offers for printing the acts of the conference, both unsolicited: from Benjamins, and from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Both offers involve a selection of papers, from a somewhat different perspective. If the impression we had during the conference is borne out, there were so many good papers, that we might consider accepting both proposals.

As suggested earlier, we can always make a complete publication of the acts on the web, if the papers received stand up to the quality expected.

My paper "Perception and the levels of biosemiosis", then, will likely appear in print, one form or another.

Mapping human impact approaching publication

I have received my article "Mapping human impact: Expanding horizons - Interdisciplinary integration", an outcome of the second CECT autumn seminar, for checking of language editing and technical editing. This is due early January at the latest.

The proceedings will appear next spring.

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".