Forthcoming book on CCS renamed

The title for my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic previously titled Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement has now been renamed Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. The book manuscript is currently in review.

#13,5; article renamed "Applied Umwelt theory in the context of phenomenological triangulation and descriptive phenomenology "

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some 400 words added to my article now titled Applied Umwelt theory in the context of phenomenological triangulation and descriptive phenomenology" (previously: Applied Umwelt theory - in the context of descriptive phenomenology and phenomenological triangulation), and a table of contents for the article drafted. So far this Spring I have had 13,5 writing days.

Chapter with Paul Thibault renamed "Human Perceptions of Animals: A Multi-Modal Interaction Analysis of Interview Data"

My chapter co-written with Paul Thibault for the collective monograph Semiotic Methods in the Study of Human-Animal Interactions, which is to be published by Tartu University Press in Spring 2016, has been renamed "Human Perceptions of Animals: A Multimodal Interaction Analysis of Interview Data" (it was previously titled "Use of Conversation Analysis in the Study of Human-Animal Interactions").

Revised title for Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2013

The theme and title for this year's Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference (Dyreetikkonferansen in Norwegian) has been changed to "Dyrs natur under press: Hvordan vi former ville dyr i vårt bilde" [Animals' nature under pressure: How we shape animals in our own image].

See also:

Norway: Second animal ethics conference to be held August 22nd

Contents of my doctoral dissertation

I have previously posted preliminary contents for my doctoral dissertation, both of which are now outdated. In March I posted a semi-detailed table of contents, and in September revised contents in 117 paragraphs.

Here is the final, much simpler table of contents (but note that many of the headlines mentioned above will likely occur in the monograph I am now planning to complete based on my doctoral work):

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDED IN DISSERTATION

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

1. THE BIOSEMIOTIC APPROACH

1.1 Appraisal of Sebeok's depiction of the Umwelt as species-specific modelling system

1.2 The levels of biosemiosis

2. UEXKÜLLIAN PHENOMENOLOGY

2.1 On the notion of phenomenology

2.2 Semiotics and phenomenology

2.3 Husserl's notion of Lebenswelt

2.4 The notion of Uexküllian phenomenology

3. UMWELT MAPPING

3.1 Visual representation of Brock's phenomenal fields

3.2 The notion of semiotic causation

4. CASE STUDY: NORWEGIAN WOLF MANAGEMENT

4.1 Field research

4.2 The cultural semiotic of wolves and sheep

4.3 Remarks on Næss' philosophy of wolf management

4.4 On invasive management of shy animals

4.5 The symbolic construction of the Big Bad Wolf in contemporary Norway

5 SUMMARIES OF ARTICLES

6 CONCLUSIONS AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS

6.1 Theoretical findings

6.2 Umwelt futurology: Three Umwelt scenarios

6.3 Deep and shallow solutions

REFERENCES

SUMMARY

SUMMARY IN ESTONIAN

PUBLICATIONS

CURRICULUM VITAE

ELULOOKIRJELDUS

Doctoral thesis submitted

My doctoral dissertation was submitted to the University of Tartu's Council of Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics on October 10th.

The final title ended up being "Umwelt transition and Uexküllian phenomenology: An ecosemiotic analysis of Norwegian wolf management". The Estonian version of the title reads "Uexkülli fenomenoloogia ja omailma üleminekud: Norra hundipopulatsiooni majandamise ökosemiootiline analüüs".

Titles - books I would like to have written (or read)

Some of these are good titles (others contain but one word of special interest). Others are good, or reputed, authors, or concern topics that interest me. Most of them will never be read by me. Some, perhaps, will – maybe even be influential in my thinking. Time will (perhaps) tell.

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———. 1985a. How culture conditions the colors we see. In Blonsky, M., ed., 157-75.

———. 1986. Travels in Hyperreality. New York: Harcourt.

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———. 1979. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston: Mifflin.

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