Today I have had half a book writing day devoted to my book Being and Sign and applying for research leave at the University of Stavanger´s faculty of Social Sciences, where I work (at Department for social studies). Apart from the book project the research leave application also includes tentative plans for application work related to the ERC Synergy Grant scheme. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 26 including 17 book writing days.
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Monday, 26 October 2026
#25,5
Today I have had half a book writing day devoted to my book Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. I went through the final page proofs and made a few remarks, and then reported these to Integra, which handles the production of the book. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 25,5 including 16,5 book writing days.
Monday, 19 October 2026
#25
Today I have had half a book writing day devoted to my book Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. I approved of the press proof (cover and back cover as well as the spine, of which the latter two were new). Moreover, I finished going through and responding to the second page proofs (or revised page proofs), which is organised by Integra.
This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 25 including 16 book writing days.
Friday, 16 October 2026
#24,5
Today I have had half an article writing day, with work done on the wolf socialization article I co-write with Laura Kiiroja. I also went through correspondence related to "Live better" articles. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 24,5 including 9 article writing days.
Thursday, 15 October 2026
#24
Today I have had a book writing day, with work done on the second page proofs (or revised page proofs) of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which I received today. Moreover, I also pondered upon a possible publication venue for my book project Being and Sign. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 24 including 15,5 book writing days.
Wednesday, 14 October 2026
#23
Today I have had half an article writing day, with work done related to planning and rescheduling of writing days, and an interview Federico Comollo conducted with Michael Marder and me. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 23 including 8,5 article writing days.
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
#22,5
Today I have had half an article writing day, with work done related to an invited (although competitive) chapter contribution related to transecology which I am considering, and an interview Federico Comollo conducted with Michael Marder and me. I also did a little planning. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 22,5 including 8 article writing days.
Friday, 9 October 2026
#22
Today I have had half an article writing day, with work done revising my article "Prolegomena to lifeworld-oriented studies of contested climate pasts and futures" which has been submitted to Journal of Cognitive Historiography. In the process I added some 150 words to the manuscript. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 22 including 7,5 article writing days.
See also:
Book review "A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare" published in Biosemiotics
Thursday, 8 October 2026
#21,5
Today I have had half an article writing day, with work done in relation to the interview that Federico Comollo has conducted with Michael Marder and me, and proof-reading conducted for my book review of Xany Jansen van Vuuren´s book Interpreting, communication and animal welfare. An ecosemiotic analysis of interspecies translation, titled "A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare", which is forthcoming in Biosemiotics. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 21,5 including 7 article writing days.
Monday, 5 October 2026
#21
Today I have had an article writing day, with work done in relation to the article "Kan velferd og miljø måles i forlengelsen av BNP?" (literally: Can welfare and environment be measured as an extension of GDP?) which I have co-written with Jan Karlstrøm and which is currently under consideration in Samfunn og økonomi. In the process I added some 200 words to the manuscript. Moreover, I did some work related to an interview that Federico Comollo has conducted with Michael Marder and me.
This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 21 including 6,5 article writing days.
Friday, 2 October 2026
#20
Today I have had an article writing day, with some 650 words added to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare by Xany Jansen van Vuuren for Biosemiotics, during revisions requested by the journal. In the process I changed the title of the book review from "A primer on ecosemiotics and animal welfare" to "A primer on interspecies translation and animal welfare", and resubmitted.
This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 20 including 5,5 article writing days. This was the first article writing day for more than a month (the last was in late August).
Friday, 25 September 2026
#19
Today I have had half a book writing day, with work done related to looking through and responding to the proof page corrections and queries of a professional proof reader regarding my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 19 including 14,5 book writing days.
#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.
Wednesday, 23 September 2026
#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.
Monday, 21 September 2026
#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.
Sunday, 20 September 2026
#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.
Friday, 18 September 2026
#15
Today I have had what ended up as half a book writing day, with a little work done in relation to the page proofs of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, and some research done concerning industry news and other news related to climate change and particularly carbon capture and storage (CCS). This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 15 including 10,5 book writing days.
Thursday, 17 September 2026
#14,5
Today I have had half a book writing day, with work done in relation to the page proofs of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. Specifically, I completed and submitted my comments and annotations to the page proofs. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 14,5 including 10 book writing days.
Wednesday, 16 September 2026
#14
Today I have had half a book writing day, with work done in relation to the page proofs 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 14 including 9,5 book writing days.
Tuesday, 15 September 2026
#13,5
Today I have had half a book writing day, with work done in relation to the page proofs 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 13,5 including 9 book writing days.