Donovan Schaefer
@feelingtheory.bsky.social
West coast soul in Philly. Theory prof teaching/writing about emotion, secularism, & power.
Current projects: Conspiracy theory, secular artifacts, Confederate commemoration.
🐱🐱 Brighton & Bristol
🌱 ⓥ food
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Current projects: Conspiracy theory, secular artifacts, Confederate commemoration.
🐱🐱 Brighton & Bristol
🌱 ⓥ food
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
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Very excited to have a short chapter out in this just-published edited volume: "Affect as Method: Against the Numb View of Embodiment"! 1/4
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“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores [Studies pass into and influence manners].”
Francis Bacon, "Of Studies" (1625)
Francis Bacon, "Of Studies" (1625)
February 15, 2026 at 11:36 PM
“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores [Studies pass into and influence manners].”
Francis Bacon, "Of Studies" (1625)
Francis Bacon, "Of Studies" (1625)
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All of this (Trump’s attempts at election interference; SAVE Act, punitive indictments, etc.) are part of the attempt to bring in a GOP dictatorship and keep it in place.
February 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
All of this (Trump’s attempts at election interference; SAVE Act, punitive indictments, etc.) are part of the attempt to bring in a GOP dictatorship and keep it in place.
“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores [Studies pass into and influence manners].”
Francis Bacon, "Of Studies" (1625)
Francis Bacon, "Of Studies" (1625)
February 15, 2026 at 11:36 PM
“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores [Studies pass into and influence manners].”
Francis Bacon, "Of Studies" (1625)
Francis Bacon, "Of Studies" (1625)
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No excuses please for Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad from their enablers in the medical profession. These men have decided it is good for their careers to tank the vaccine market. What evil, evil little men.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like
A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.
open.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:38 PM
No excuses please for Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad from their enablers in the medical profession. These men have decided it is good for their careers to tank the vaccine market. What evil, evil little men.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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The pet peeve no one wishes to hear is that midwestern towns have got to stop calling one stage in a field an “amphitheater.” Unless it is two theaters pushed together in a large circle in the round, sir, it is a theater.
February 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
The pet peeve no one wishes to hear is that midwestern towns have got to stop calling one stage in a field an “amphitheater.” Unless it is two theaters pushed together in a large circle in the round, sir, it is a theater.
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Mellon is counterbalancing the takeover of the NEH and NEA. As a funding entity (same with ACLS and Whiting), they are trying to fund the projects that the federal government refuses to. This Atlantic article was such a hot mess.
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 15, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Mellon is counterbalancing the takeover of the NEH and NEA. As a funding entity (same with ACLS and Whiting), they are trying to fund the projects that the federal government refuses to. This Atlantic article was such a hot mess.
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In the middle of a once-in-a-generation attack on academia and the humanities by the right in the US, as people are losing funding and jobs, and we don't even know if our disciplines will make it out alive, Tyler Austin Harper decides that it was time to attack the Mellon Foundation.
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
In the middle of a once-in-a-generation attack on academia and the humanities by the right in the US, as people are losing funding and jobs, and we don't even know if our disciplines will make it out alive, Tyler Austin Harper decides that it was time to attack the Mellon Foundation.
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She didn't accuse Jews as a people of committing genocide, though. She accused the government and the military of the state of Israel of doing so. People reporting it this way are trying to make a conflation that AOC herself was careful not to make.
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
She didn't accuse Jews as a people of committing genocide, though. She accused the government and the military of the state of Israel of doing so. People reporting it this way are trying to make a conflation that AOC herself was careful not to make.
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Death cult earthjustice.org/article/the-...
Trump’s EPA Just Repealed the ‘Endangerment Finding.’ Here’s What That Means.
The EPA revoked the finding that greenhouses gases threaten public health and welfare, then weakened vehicle emissions standards.
earthjustice.org
February 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Death cult earthjustice.org/article/the-...
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delicious vegan lunch from A Pastry Shop (east end Glasgow) - spicy tofu sandwich and cardamom knot bun 🥐🥪 both so good
February 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM
delicious vegan lunch from A Pastry Shop (east end Glasgow) - spicy tofu sandwich and cardamom knot bun 🥐🥪 both so good
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“Which came first the chicken or the egg” eggs, obviously. They evolved way before chickens. Whatever reasonable cutoff you’re using for chickenness there was an egg that led to it. Easy. Next question. What’s a sorites
February 14, 2026 at 2:02 PM
“Which came first the chicken or the egg” eggs, obviously. They evolved way before chickens. Whatever reasonable cutoff you’re using for chickenness there was an egg that led to it. Easy. Next question. What’s a sorites
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Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2
February 14, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2
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citation kneaded
February 15, 2026 at 9:51 AM
citation kneaded
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"We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend." 💜 Make your beautiful weird, "bad" (not bad!), I'm-new-to-this, well-this-is-what-*I*-like, angry hopeful art!
February 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM
"We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend." 💜 Make your beautiful weird, "bad" (not bad!), I'm-new-to-this, well-this-is-what-*I*-like, angry hopeful art!
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Goodwin’s campaigners have expressed clear support for the far-right group Britain First
‘I wouldn’t touch a Jewish woman’: Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton
‘I wouldn’t touch a Jewish woman’: Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton
'I wouldn't touch a Jewish woman': Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton
Members of Reform's campaign team shared racist content online and aligned themselves with far-right groups
manchestermill.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Goodwin’s campaigners have expressed clear support for the far-right group Britain First
‘I wouldn’t touch a Jewish woman’: Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton
‘I wouldn’t touch a Jewish woman’: Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton
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Marty Makary. Say his name. Coward. Collaborator. He is working to destroy the market for vaccines at the behest of RFK Jr.
Such a cowardly little man
February 15, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Marty Makary. Say his name. Coward. Collaborator. He is working to destroy the market for vaccines at the behest of RFK Jr.
Hard to photograph well but this V-day fondue/charcuterie kit from Rebel Cheese is blowing our minds!
February 15, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Hard to photograph well but this V-day fondue/charcuterie kit from Rebel Cheese is blowing our minds!
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AYN RAND: it is Rational and in fact Noble to care only for one's self because who knows if anyone else is even Real with an inner life like you, plus you're the Main Guy so your happiness is like the whole world is happy
NARCISSISTIC SOCIOPATHS: wow what an interesting and totally New belief system
NARCISSISTIC SOCIOPATHS: wow what an interesting and totally New belief system
February 14, 2026 at 11:25 AM
AYN RAND: it is Rational and in fact Noble to care only for one's self because who knows if anyone else is even Real with an inner life like you, plus you're the Main Guy so your happiness is like the whole world is happy
NARCISSISTIC SOCIOPATHS: wow what an interesting and totally New belief system
NARCISSISTIC SOCIOPATHS: wow what an interesting and totally New belief system
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I think it’s time to acknowledge the real problem. We’re in a bitchassness epidemic.
February 14, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I think it’s time to acknowledge the real problem. We’re in a bitchassness epidemic.
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Evangelical Americans who fear Islam taking over the United States, I would argue that by that rationale, by the numbers they should be much more fearful of Catholics taking over. Because there are lot more Catholics than Muslims in America and most evangelicals don’t see Catholics as Christian.
February 14, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Evangelical Americans who fear Islam taking over the United States, I would argue that by that rationale, by the numbers they should be much more fearful of Catholics taking over. Because there are lot more Catholics than Muslims in America and most evangelicals don’t see Catholics as Christian.
Seriously, I'm calling it now. In 2027 this dude is going to turn out to be some high-concept Banksy shit
February 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Seriously, I'm calling it now. In 2027 this dude is going to turn out to be some high-concept Banksy shit
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Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.
February 14, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.
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Roses are red 🌹
Pulses are leguminous 🫘
They produce 20 times more protein per hectare 🏞️
Compared to meat that comes from ruminants 🐮
Pulses are leguminous 🫘
They produce 20 times more protein per hectare 🏞️
Compared to meat that comes from ruminants 🐮
February 14, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Roses are red 🌹
Pulses are leguminous 🫘
They produce 20 times more protein per hectare 🏞️
Compared to meat that comes from ruminants 🐮
Pulses are leguminous 🫘
They produce 20 times more protein per hectare 🏞️
Compared to meat that comes from ruminants 🐮
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TV show pitch: ‘Tome Team’, where a group of rare books librarians and book historians are sent to investigate an uncatalogued library for interesting incunabula, marginalia and provenances - and they have just three days to do it.
February 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
TV show pitch: ‘Tome Team’, where a group of rare books librarians and book historians are sent to investigate an uncatalogued library for interesting incunabula, marginalia and provenances - and they have just three days to do it.