by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 9, 2019 | Bad Advertising, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, cruelty, death, Decolonization, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, Semiotics, Side-effects, Syndemics, Unpleasant Design
Introducing: The inverted guillotine Having lived for the better part of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area, I have put in my time on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. From it’s loud, overcrowded, clunky, and infrequent trains, to the spate of BART...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 29, 2019 | Bureaucratic quixotic, e-waste, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, folly, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry
About a decade ago, the “American Vaping Association” railed against RJReynolds (later RAI, now part of British American Tobacco (BAT)) for attempting to persuade the FDA to “ban the sale of open-system e-cigarettes, including all component...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Rhone Glacier has been wrapped in blankets for the past 8 years by the Swiss. For the last 8 summers, Switzerland has been wrapping glaciers in blankets to stop them melting. These desperate strategies are increasingly becoming more common as our ecosystems...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 8, 2019 | Biosemiotics, Conferences, Talks
After a successful 2019 Biosemiotics Gathering in Moscow, I’m happy to be sharing a deeper look at my project at the University of Tartu, in Estonia, giving a talk on Multi-level semiosis – and the impact of supernormal stimuli in the human superorganism and...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
https://www.eshub.nl/podcast-2/ I gave a talk a few weeks ago for the Erasmus Sustainability Hub which is now online. I had a great time being interviewed by Wallerand Bazin. They did a great job too in assembling a set of links to some of the major themes I covered....
