3 meetings

Today I have had three meetings. This included the weekly faculty leadership group meeting, and a weekly covid-related meeting.

Blurb for workshop presentation: Individuality and subjectivity in animals in light of Umwelt temporality

I have just composed the blurb below for my invited presentation at a workshop to be held in May.

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Individuality and subjectivity in animals in light of Umwelt temporality  

In a biosemiotic understanding, all animals are endowed with an Umwelt as described by the German-Baltic biologist Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944) in his classical Umwelt theory, which was developed in the period 1909–1940. In my work I have focused on developing perspectives on Umwelt temporality, starting with a notion of “Umwelt transition” (i.e., environmental change as seen from an Umwelt perspective). While some Umwelt transitions are regular (e.g. developmental), others represent historical events. Another central term in my work is “Umwelt trajectory”, representing the path through time taken by a living being as described by way of its changing relations to significant others. These notions may be applied in historical studies as well as futures studies. This provides us with a theoretical framework and methodology for studying animals as agents endowed with individual semiotic agency. 

A meeting

Today I have attended one meeting, my weekly meeting with the office manager.

NOSWEL master open for applications

Nordic Master Programme in Social Work and Welfare (NOSWEL) at University of Stavanger (in collaboration with Aalborg University, Denmark) is open for applications with deadline March 1st. Successful applicants will start studying in August 2021.

#13

Today I have finished revising chapter 9, Phenomenology, for our book Semiotic agency, with some 700 words written today. Total number of writing days so far this Spring is up to 13.

#12

Today I have had an article writing day devoted to revising chapter 9, "Phenomenology", for our book Semiotic agency, with some 300 words written. I also made a figure depicting how a biosemiotic understanding differs from a simplistic phenomenological understanding of the phenomenal complexity experienced by different organisms.

"Neurosemiotics across species" chapter accepted for publication in Routledge handbook

I have been notified that my book chapter "Neurosemiotics across species" has been accepted for publication in a Routledge Handbook on neurosemiotics, edited by Adolfo García and Agustin Ibanez.