by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
My review of the 2018 Biosemiotics Gathering that Terry Deacon and I organized at UC Berkeley is now a Featured Article and Open Access at the Journal of Biosemiotics. The Biosemiotics Gathering this year will be in Moscow.
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 26, 2019 | beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Discursive Gap, folly, normalization, parasitism, Wolves in sheep's clothing
In doing some background research for my book, I remembered that I had read about a year ago of a US Congressman who was working to get rid of the imperative for US health insurers to take patients with preexisting conditions, who shortly thereafter was diagnosed with...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
John Rawls’s (1971) notion of national self-sufficiency in terms of resources is about as far from our current globalized world as we can get, in terms of theory aimed at non-ideal applications. Globalization is a fact of life. And yet, with each displacement in...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 8, 2019 | Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Talks
Advertising and Agency: An ethological account of how social infrastructure compromises or sustains our autonomy May 16, 2019 12:00 – 13:00 Bayle Building, J5, Erasmus University RotterdamHumans like to think of ourselves as autonomous agents, freely making our...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Notes from a debrief of Philip Morris’s 1998 Litter Focus Group read: “Non-smokers tend to give smokers a lot of slack about throwing down a butt,” claiming that “throwing it on the ground eliminates fire risk,” and that litter is a “natural result of outdoor smoking...
