by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 24, 2025 | animals, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Climate Change, conservation, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Political Theory, Naturverlassenheit, parasitism, philosophy of science, Semiocide
Introduction: The Paradox of Fear and Death in Contemporary Japan In 2023, Japan witnessed an unprecedented 219 bear attacks, resulting in six human fatalities. The media response was immediate and visceral—front-page stories, emergency government meetings, and calls...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 22, 2025 | Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Plants
I would argue that, although I am a so-called plant philosopher, that actually this domain is the easiest starting point for understanding from a generalist’s perspective what constitutes a beautiful, intact, harmonious ecology. For example, entomology is much...
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...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 4, 2024 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Decolonization, duh, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Public Health, Systems thinking, Verschlimmbessern
I get an email from Aporia Magazine titled “You’re probably a eugenicist” — provocatively suggesting that we all favor good genes, and that we, all-knowing moderns, imbued with science, know what good genes are. I take umbrage with Aporia for...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 26, 2023 | Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Naturverlassenheit, Semiotics, Unpleasant Design
Semiofest, the largest meeting and organization professional semioticians (working commercially rather than academically) just had a session biosemiotics. In many ways, it was also sustainability 2.0, tackling the issues of performativity and power in how we make...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 4, 2023 | Artificial Everything, beyond idealism, Biosemiotics, Decolonization, duh, fake loops, folly, object-oriented-ontology, philosophy of science, Publications, Verschlimmbessern, Wolves in sheep's clothing
My new article out in Zygon, “Object?Oriented Ontology and the Other of We in Anthropocentric Posthumanism” is a philosophical takedown of a misguided notion: that difference that make a difference should be deliberately overlooked or ignored for the sake...
