{"id":1328,"date":"2010-08-26T13:35:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/08\/26\/biosemiotics-news\/"},"modified":"2010-08-26T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T18:35:18","slug":"biosemiotics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/08\/26\/biosemiotics-news\/","title":{"rendered":"biosemiotics news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20727741.200-biosemiotics-searching-for-meanings-in-a-meadow.html?full=true&amp;print=true#\">New Scientist<\/a> has a nice article (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20727741.200-biosemiotics-searching-for-meanings-in-a-meadow.html?full=true&amp;print=true#\">Searching for meanings in a meadow<\/a>&#8220;) on the state of the field of biosemiotics, which I&#8217;ve mentioned here on a number of occasions (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu\/2009\/03\/biosemiotics.html\">here<\/a> and, in passing, <a href=\"http:\/\/aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu\/2010\/03\/a_postconstructivist_synthesis.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The new Springer anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/life+sciences\/book\/978-1-4020-9649-5\">Essential Readings in Biosemiotics<\/a> looks like a very good overview of all things biosemiotic. The 77-page introduction by Donald Favareau can be read online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/978-1-4020-9649-5#section=713872&amp;page=2&amp;locus=0\">here<\/a> or downloaded as PDF file from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/life+sciences\/book\/978-1-4020-9649-5?detailsPage=free\">this page<\/a>. I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scientist has a nice article (&#8220;Searching for meanings in a meadow&#8220;) on the state of the field of biosemiotics, which I&#8217;ve mentioned here on a number of occasions (e.g., here and, in passing, here). The new Springer anthology Essential Readings in Biosemiotics looks like a very good overview of all things biosemiotic. The 77-page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688977],"tags":[4442],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geo_philosophy","tag-biosemiotics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-lq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1039,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/03\/13\/cultural-studies-biosemiotic-turn\/","url_meta":{"origin":1328,"position":0},"title":"cultural studies&#8217; biosemiotic turn?","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the impressive recent efforts to bring the physical sciences and the social sciences and humanities back onto \"consilient\" speaking terms (to use E. 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