October (1-3) I’ll be presenting as part of Utrecht University’s CONCEPTUALIZING ECOCIDE conference on the relations between ecocide and semiocide, as part of the “Rethinking Harm in the Anthropocene” panel. This builds on my previous talks at Utrecht University 
where I first brought these questions together.
Ecocide has too often been captured by the same forces that brought us bean-counting ‘ecosystems services’ discourse, as well as the mathematical reductionists treating biodiversity as something that can be exhaustively studied through counting different species.
Semiocide introduces to the meaning-loss of ecocide — that what is lost is more than the sum of the organisms, land, or ecosystem services. Rather, the relations between stable umwelten, images of how organisms know ourselves through our habitat, suggest that when we impoverish ecosystems, we impoverish the *quality* of all the species contained therein.
Thus, we can think about succession semiology in a similar fashion that we do about succession ecology: the dimensions and depth of relation depend on long-standing ways of composting and processing, and affordance making and taking.
https://www.uu.nl/en/events/conceptualizing-ecocide-conference
As always, I think of Polly Higgins when working with ecocide, who tirelessly popularized this notion as crucial and missing in our legal systems.