by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 6, 2017 | animals, Biosemiotics, Climate Change, Interspecies Communication, philosophy of science, pollution, Systems thinking, Talks, Uncategorized
For those in the San Francisco bay area, I will be giving a 15-minute presentation Thursday April 27th 7:30-9:30pm at the TechShop on “The effects of pollution on organism signaling and human health.” TechShop 926 Howard Street San Francisco California 94103 Taste of...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 19, 2016 | animals, Bees, Biosemiotics, Communication, Discursive Gap, Interspecies Communication, Talks
I’ll be presenting October 5, 2016, 6:30-8:30pm at the California Institute of Integral Studies on the book I’m working on, Interspecies Politics. The presentation, “Ensemblist Identities and the Ecological Self” is part of my larger...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 13, 2016 | animals, Biophilia, cruelty, Naturverlassenheit
The Guardian recently aired an article on a boutique hedgehog petting zoo-café that opened in Tokyo. For $9 per person, visitors can drink coffee and cuddle these animals. Popular with kids and adults alike, this café, named Harry to pun on the Japanese pronunciation...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 17, 2015 | animals, cruelty, death, eating animals, frogs, meat, normalization
Not sure what to make of this. I respect the Japanese and their culture on so many counts – but amphibians are intelligent, and this seems to be excruciatingly cruel. To not be able to identify other living beings as having an inner world of their own, to treat...
