UTOPISM. *** In the long run, nothing else is realistic. *** Welcome to the English language blog of Morten Tønnessen, Professor of philosophy at University of Stavanger's Department of Social Studies.
The 2023 newsletter of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics, IACS News, published in December, includes presentation of the six plenary speakers for the forthcoming IACS conference to be held in Lund, Sweden this Summer (August 15th to 17th), with the theme "Crises of meaning".
The newsletter can be read in full here.
The book Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era, edited by Lenart Skof, Sashinungla, and Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, where I contribute with the chapter "A biosemiotic perspective on the human condition and the environmental crisis", now has a new planned publication date, May 30th, according to Springer´s website for the book.
The magazine Ledernytt has republished an interview with me done some years ago, "God bedriftskultur skal lære medarbeiderne å modnes i moralsk forstand" (A good company culture should teach coworkers to mature in moral terms).
Khrono has published a follow-up news story to the news story published Wednesday featuring an interview with me on the University of Stavanger´s suggested guidelines for work planning. The news story is titled "Guro Lind: — Dette er en farlig vei å gå og jeg blir dypt bekymret" (Guro Lind: This is a dangerous path to go down and I am deeply concerned), and features comments by Guro Lind, Head of the Norwegian trade union Forskerforbundet, a trade union for researchers, as well as by professor Tony Burner. The news story also refers to comments made to the original story on Khrono and Facebook. The new story links to the original story, and to my related letter to the editor, but does not mention me by name.
The news story in the Norwegian online academic news outlet Khrono featuring an interview with me, which was published yesterday morning, has been the most-read story on Khrono since last evening, and throughout today.
Today I have had an article writing day, the 19th writing day so far this Spring, with some 900 words added to my article "Applied Umwelt theory in the context of phenomenological triangulation and descriptive phenomenology". In February I had 11 writing days, with some 6.496 words written logged.
Today a letter to the editor of mine, «Høyskolevisjonen» for UiS, has been published in Khrono, a Norwegian higher education online news outlet.
Khrono has simultaneously published a news story featuring an interview with me, Vil spare penger ved å kutte i forskningstiden (Wants to save money by cutting research time), written by journalist Eva Tønnessen. The story also features an interview with comments made by HR director at University of Stavanger Gro Sokn.
This is how the news story is presented by Khrono on Facebook:
