Framing Nature - Wendy Wheeler

Is nature framing us, or we it? When Jakob von Uexküll granted every organism its own signifying world, he quietly dissolved the boundary between subject and object that modern biology had worked so hard to police—and biosemiotics has been living with the aftershock ever since. What makes Wendy Wheeler's (1949–2020) thinking distinctive is the refusal to let the humanities sit downstream of the life sciences. If genes scaffold rather than command, if abduction runs through cell and sonnet alike, then literary criticism and theoretical biology are not neighbours but the same enquiry pursued at different scales. Here, in this rare recording, that wager finds its voice. 0:00 Introduction by Kalevi Kull 4:29 Wendy Wheeler 47:26 Discussion - Original video footage from: https://uttv.ee/naita?id=19718