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Academic fashions

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Google’s Books Ngram Viewer seems like the ultimate tool for tracing academic fads and fashions. It charts how often a word or phrase has been mentioned in books over a time period (in the last 200 years). Here are some Ngrams just for fun, on ANT, Latour, Heidegger, Harman, Deleuze, Whitehead, Sloterdijk and others. More on Ngram Viewer at The Guardian.

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  1. charting academic fashions « Object-Oriented Philosophy Says:
    17 December 2010 at 11:31 pm

    […] Erdélyi at ANTHEM gives samples from a Google tool USEFUL FOR CHARTING THE RISE AND FALL OF ACADEMIC FASHIONS. Posted by doctorzamalek Filed in Uncategorized Leave a Comment » LikeBe the first to […]

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