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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“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.
Doctor Zaius Doctor ZAIUS
February 14, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Doctor Zaius Doctor ZAIUS
February 14, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Chances the Basilisk will come after me if I make a site dedicated to ruthlessly mocking AIs?
a man standing in front of a door with the words just putting some feelers out above him
Alt: Dan Levy standing in front of a door with the words "just putting some feelers out" below him
media.tenor.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Chances the Basilisk will come after me if I make a site dedicated to ruthlessly mocking AIs?
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Chandler D. Rogers, Merleau-Ponty and the Human-Animal Relation: From Eros to Environmental Responsibility - @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-merleau...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-merleau...
Merleau-Ponty and the Human–Animal Relation
Merleau-Ponty and the Human–Animal Relation
edinburghuniversitypress.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Chandler D. Rogers, Merleau-Ponty and the Human-Animal Relation: From Eros to Environmental Responsibility - @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-merleau...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-merleau...
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Using AI makes science communication worse. Period.
AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.
But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.
AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.
But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.
🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 14, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Using AI makes science communication worse. Period.
AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.
But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.
AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.
But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.
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Rod Dreher and JD Vance and their ilk do not, in fact, want to return to the Middle Ages, nor do they want to undo the Enlightenment, what they want is a fascist society that requires a mythical Golden Age that never existed, a neomedieval bullshit sphere to justify their atrocities.
February 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Rod Dreher and JD Vance and their ilk do not, in fact, want to return to the Middle Ages, nor do they want to undo the Enlightenment, what they want is a fascist society that requires a mythical Golden Age that never existed, a neomedieval bullshit sphere to justify their atrocities.
In case there was any lingering question that conspiracy theories lead to terminal brain rot.
I think more people should keep their insane thoughts to themselves.
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM
In case there was any lingering question that conspiracy theories lead to terminal brain rot.
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From my vintage advice book collection: a 1971 book for young women. (I can’t get over the subtitle.)
February 12, 2026 at 8:51 PM
From my vintage advice book collection: a 1971 book for young women. (I can’t get over the subtitle.)
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We never should have let the whole "disenchantment" myth get off the ground.
It's just a slush fund for reactionaries to sell books and prop up fascists.
It's just a slush fund for reactionaries to sell books and prop up fascists.
rod dreher is not that interesting. he is a guy very clearly filled with self hatred tied to repressed feelings related to his gender and sexuality, and rather than deal with them, he blames “modernity” and “secularism” for why he’s unhappy. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
We never should have let the whole "disenchantment" myth get off the ground.
It's just a slush fund for reactionaries to sell books and prop up fascists.
It's just a slush fund for reactionaries to sell books and prop up fascists.
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Irish Studies people find it tiresome when the only thing I say in response to them is "ahhh Ireland, the Taiwan of Europe." But it's true. Every place is a Taiwan of somewhere else. Facts.
February 13, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Irish Studies people find it tiresome when the only thing I say in response to them is "ahhh Ireland, the Taiwan of Europe." But it's true. Every place is a Taiwan of somewhere else. Facts.