Emily Davidow

In Popular Terms is an interactive visualization that tracks the shifting language of ecology. It maps the catch phrases, scientific technologies, and bumper sticker slogans that surround the changing language used to describe our relationship to nature.

Boredom is a provocation. But what kind of provocation is it? It is not the existential state of eternal ennui or depression– if it were, it would act like the dejected robot Marvin in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It means more than just the impetus for change.