by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 20, 2023 | agroecology, algae, Artificial Everything, Biomimicry, Climate Change, conservation, deep ecology, Interspecies Communication, philosophy of science, Plants, Publications, Systems thinking
How does the race to make algae do tasks for us undermine the ability of those algae to perform their metabolic tasks? My colleagues and I have a new article out looking at the limits of enclosed ecosystems (lab controlled algae breeding for energy/food/oil, etc)....
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...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 18, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Communication, Conflicts of Interest, Dante Alighieri — 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.', death, Decolonization, deep ecology, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, duh, Energy, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Naturverlassenheit, Normal is Over, normalization, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Systems thinking, University Life
After the 28 November, 2022 occupation of the Sanders Building at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where I work, by OccupyEUR, the students involved in the very nonviolent protest were violently removed by riot police at the Executive Board’s behest. Not the finest...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 5, 2022 | beyond idealism, Biosemiotics, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, philosophy of science, Plants, Systems thinking
In her editorial about my ‘Plant Philosophy and Interpretation: Making Sense of Contemporary Plant Intelligence Debates’ article in Environmental Values, Elke Pirgmaier writes ‘Plant Philosophy and Interpretation: Making Sense of Contemporary Plant Intelligence...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 6, 2022 | Artificial Everything, cruelty, death, duh, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, parasitism, philosophy of science, Public Health, the real
There are some presentations at our second cohort at the biomedical ethics residency today that made me queasy because of how backwards causation they were. The whole point of having biomedical ethics is to avoid blinding ourselves to the various factors that create...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 19, 2022 | beyond liberalism, Discursive Gap, duh, e-waste, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, object-oriented-ontology, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Unpleasant Design
smartphone tombstones Is programming premature product lifespans a form of corporate crime? This the question that Lieselot Bisschop, Jelle Jaspers, and I address in our new publication in the journal of Crime, Law and Social Change. Planned obsolescence is a core...
