by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 26, 2026 | agnotology, agroecology, Aphorisms, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Communication, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, exploitation, folly, Unpleasant Design
We need the default to be good. By which I mean intentional. Nature. If it’s made with AI, it must say “Made with AI,” so that we don’t have to constantly be checking everywhere and everyone doesn’t have to obsessively say, “I made...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 8, 2026 | beyond idealism, Biosemiotics, Discursive Gap, Presentations, Semiotics, Systems thinking
Invitation to join Semiofest For those who haven’t yet peeped through the keyhole that is commercial semiotics, there is a biannual conference that features the state-of-the-art of the industry. Commercial semiotics since its relatively recent inception has...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 10, 2026 | agroecology, beyond idealism, Biomimicry, Biophilia, permaculture, Publications, SolarPunk, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
I’m thrilled to share that my latest essay just published in Aeon explores solarpunk—a vision of the future where technology and nature aren’t opposing forces, but collaborative partners. This biosemiotic futurism explores what would a biophilic technology...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 17, 2025 | Artificial Everything, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, Climate Change, collapsology, deus ex machina, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Verschlimmbessern
Predatory ambitions: “the tactical setting of ambitious-looking but unattainable climate targets” — Ketan Joshi The Greenwashing Habitability Zone, as described by Ketan Joshi (in the first figure below), shows the usual suspects of discourses of...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 2, 2025 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Communication, duh, Fragmentation, the real
In Günther Anders’ 1958 essay The Obsolescence of Privacy, he opens with the epigraph: ‘The world is not only delivered to the house’, the inverse is also true, ‘the house is delivered to the world’. It is perhaps no coincidence, that as Hannah Arendt’s...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 25, 2024 | beyond idealism, Biosemiotics, Climate Change, Conferences, conservation, Discursive Gap, Naturverlassenheit
On July 25-27, 2024 I will be speaking at a workshop at my alma mater in Kiel, Germany, on Blasen, Umwelten und Umgebung: Biodiversität und Porosität im Sinne von Peter Sloterdijk, Helmuth Plessner und Jakob von Uexküll The workshop on “Konzepte und Narrativeder...
