#3; book review "A primer on ecosemiotics and animal welfare" finished and submitted

Today I have had an article writing day, with some 1.200 words added to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare by Xany Jansen van Vuuren for Biosemiotics in the process of finishing and submitting it. My review is titled "A primer on ecosemiotics and animal welfare". This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 3 including 2,5 article writing days.

#42,5

Today I have had half a book writing day, with some 500 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. I have also had half an article writing day devoted to finishing my selection of text for a Spanish translation of my journal article "The biosemiotic glossary project: Agent, agency" (first published in Biosemiotics, 8(1), 2015).

So far this Spring I have had 42,5 writing days, including 35 book writing days and 7,5 article writing days.

Altogether in April I logged some 8.456 words written (spread on 11,5 writing days), including 8.372 words on Captured. So far this year I´ve added more than 33.000 words to my monograph.

#39,5

Today, during sick leave, I have had half an article writing day, with work done related to a Spanish translation of my article "The biosemiotic glossary project: Agent, agency". So far this Spring I have had 39,5 writing days, including 7 article writing days.

#10,5; Spring 2025 prioritized writing plan finished

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some work done relating to a prospective translation of my agent/agency review article, and some 200 words added altogether to my so-called UNDP letter and "Wasted GDP in major economies". I also finished planning article writing days for the rest of the semester (May and June).

Altogether this semester I plan 51 book writing days and 17,5 article writing days, i.e., totally 68,5 writing days (in comparison I planned 47,5 writing days in Spring 2024, and completed about as many, whereas I planned 57 writing days in Spring 2023, and completed 52,5). The main priority this Spring is finishing my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement.

So far this Spring I have had 10,5 writing days including 2,5 article writing days.

Hungarian translation of introductory chapter on zoosemiotics published

Our introductory chapter from the 2016 University of Tartu Press book Animal Umwelten in a changing world - Zoosemiotic perspectives has now appeared in Hungarian translation:

— 2018h. Maran, Timo; Tønnessen, Morten; Magnus, Riin; Mäekivi, Nelly; Rattasepp, Silver; Tuur, Kadri (2018). Bevezetés a zooszemiotikába. Filozófiai és történeti áttekintés [Introduction to zoosemiotics. Philosophical and historical review; translation of 2016l, in Hungarian]. In: Szirmai Éva, Tóth Szergej, Újvári Edit (eds), Állati jelek, képek és terek [Animal signs, Pictures and spaces]. Szeged: Szegedi Egyetemi Kiadó, Juhász Gyula Felsöoktatási Kiadó, 15–34.

"Introducing zoosemiotics" chapter to be translated to Hungarian

Our chapter to below is to be translated to Hungarian published in an edited collection.

Maran, Timo, Morten Tønnessen, Riin Magnus, Nelly Mäekivi, Silver Rattasepp and Kadri Tüür 2016. Introducing Zoosemiotics: Philosophy and Historical Backgrounds. In Maran, Tønnessen and Rattasepp (eds), Animal Umwelten in a changing world – Zoosemiotic perspectives (Tartu: Tartu University Press 2016), 10–28.

No Norwegian ecophilosophy volume in Avatud Eesti Raamat series

About a year go our application to publish a collection of Norwegian ecophilosophy in the  Estonian Avatud Eesti Raamat series was rejected. So that book will not materialize.

See also:

Another chapter by Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng selected for Estonian Norwegian ecophilosophy volume

Chapters selected for Avatud Eesti Raamat volume on Norwegian ecophilosophy

Another chapter by Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng selected for Estonian Norwegian ecophilosophy volume

The last few days I have selected an additional text by Norwegian eco-philosopher Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng for inclusion in a forthcoming book in the series Avatud Eesti Raamat with Norwegian ecophilosophy in Estonian translation (to be published by Tartu University Press). The essay is entitled "Kraft-rom mot elve-tid: To kulturer på norsk jord" [Power-space vs. river-time: Two cultures on Norwegian soil]" and was first published in 1984.

See also:

Chapters selected for Avatud Eesti Raamat volume on Norwegian ecophilosophy

Reference for "Darwin and the English Morality"

A few days ago I was notified about the pagination etc. of "Darwin and the English Morality", a 1917 essay by Jakob von Uexküll which I have translated to English. The essay will appear in print in the December 2013 issue of Biosemiotics. Full reference:

von Uexküll, Jakob 2013 [1917]. Darwin and the English Morality. Translation of "Darwin und die englische Moral", Deutsche Rundschau 173: 215-242. Translation by Morten Tønnessen, English language editing by Jonathan Beever. Biosemiotics 6(3): 449-471 (online version published November 21 2013, DOI 10.1007/s12304-013-9182-8).

Paper on Uexküll translation presented in Castiglioncello

Saturday June 8th I presented my paper (co-written with Jonathan Beever) “Uexküll in Translation: “Darwin and the English Morality”” at the 13th gathering in biosemiotics in Castiglioncello, Italy. 30 people or so where present on the last day of the conference. I attended the whole conference (June 5-8).

Collaboration with Ilmar Rootsi concluded

My collaboration with Estonian Ilmar Rootsi (which has been assisted by Nelly Mäekivi) has come to an end, since it today emerged we have a fundamental disagreement about a key source for our planned but now cancelled article on people killed by wolves historically in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia.

This means we will not co-write any article. However, I have offered assistance in making sure a translation is good quality if he wants to present more of his own work in English.

Uexküll translation project in process; deadline extended to February 28th

In March 2012 Jonathan Beever and I agreed with Editor-in-Chief of Biosemiotics Marcello Barbieri that the two of us will translate Jakob von Uexküll's 1917 essay "Darwin und die Englische Moral" and write a framing essay to go along with it. More specifically, I will do the translation, with language editing done by Jonathan. The framing essay will be co-written by both of us.

We originally planned to have the texts done in the autumn of 2012, but before Christmas got acceptance for a delayed deadline, February 28th 2013. However, we have by now started on both the translation and the framing essay, and have agreed to maintain regular contact, with Skype calls approximately every second week, in January and February (and beyond that as well, due to another, thematically related writing project).