by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 4, 2026 | agnotology, Communication, Discursive Gap, Normal is Over, Publications, Semiocide
Out now from Open Humanities Press! The TRUMP administration “banned” a number of research terms. In CONTRADICTionary, each of these terms gets its own entry. CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance is a collective intervention into the politics of language at a...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 24, 2026 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Climate Change, Discursive Gap, parasitism, Priorities, SolarPunk, Syndemics
Curious what people are actually doing to help. Rather than just talking about it. Discourse is great. It lets off steam and does a doozy for moral accounting: we feel moral for talking about it, reducing the urge to actually take action. But without action, there is...
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 | May 2, 2026 | CDoH, Discursive Gap, Industrial Epidemics, Public Health, Publications, Systems thinking
Happy to announce a new article from Luc Hagenaars, Grant Ennis, and myself in JAMA Health Forum on the “Harms of Framing Obesity as a Disease of Individuals.” GLP-1s have been heralded as wonder drugs, finally providing relief from obesogenic environments...
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 | Jan 19, 2026 | CDoH, chemicals, Climate Change, collapsology, Communication, Discursive Gap, e-waste, Energy, Environmental Justice, Extended Producer Responsibility, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Priorities, Systems thinking
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released the Global Environment Outlook, Seventh Edition (GEO-7) — the most comprehensive scientific assessment of the global environment to date. This landmark report synthesizes the latest environmental...
