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October 31, 2011

How Deep is Your Ecology?

Posted by Nathen under Alder Fuller, deep ecology, ecology, Google Ngram Viewer, lists, Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
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I first saw a version of this chart on the fridge door of my complexity theory teacher, Alder Fuller, about eight years ago. I have only been able to find this version, which is associated with the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (“May we live long and die out”). Maybe the meme made its rounds and died out or maybe it never caught on. I found it thought provoking: And I don’t know how much these Google ngrams can really tell you about the coming and going of memes, but here are a couple:

Use of "ecology" and "deep ecology" in English print since 1880

Deep ecology, anthropocentrism, ecofeminism, environmental ethics, 1980-2008

 

August 25, 2011

Google Ngram Viewer

Posted by Nathen under books, Google Ngram Viewer, statistics, words
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I became aware of Google’s Ngram Viewer a few days ago when Reanna read me the essay “Isn’t the word “feminism” itself gender-biased?” The author used this image:

What? You can do that? Yes, you can, apparently. You can search the frequency of words in all of the books Google has digitized

This is really fun, but be aware that you can sink a lot of time into it. Here are a few randomy ngrams I made. Sorry, but you might have to zoom in to see the text. That’s control-plus for PCs and command-plus for Macs.