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Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Mostly working on genre, popular music, and fashion. Also interested in the global history of philosophy, trans philosophy, and applied ethics! https://sites.google.com/view/emmie-malone/

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 26d

I’m so excited to announce that I and @cherylann7.bsky.social will be taking over as Co-Chairs of the Feminist Caucus Committee for the American Society for Aesthetics! I’m so honored to be trusted continuing the invaluable work of @lizscar.bsky.social and Sue Spaid.

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 1d

It’s difficult to imagine knowing enough to do this but not knowing enough to see why you should obviously not do this.

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

this is so offensive it's like a nathan for you sketch lmao

Others, including the show's co-creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, felt it was important to have Jorgensen's character feature in the series for another reason: the current sad climate of rising violence against the trans community, and the inaccurate conflation that being a trans person is some sort of sexual deviance.

Jorgensen's character in the series clearly tells Gein he is not transgender, but is gynephilic (a man so aroused by the female body that he wants to be inside it).

"It was really important for us to make that distinction, for us to say, 'Look, these are two very different things'," Brennan says, as per Tudum. "And it was cool to be able to put it in the mouth of Christine Jorgensen. For him to be told that through her in his mind was a really cool moment."

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a clutch. It’s a large heart shaped shearling clutch. What is the occasion for this?? It’s too casual to bring anywhere requiring a clutch. It’s too large to carry for long. It revels in its frivolousness and there’s something admirable about that! It’s aspirational! I too aspire to frivolity!

A beige shearling Stoney clover lane “belt bag” the bag is a clutch the size of a dinner plate.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 2d

Red is the color of the week. The Kate Spade is almost surreal, neat and ordered but it feels almost like dew drops. Could crush a Christmas party! Alternatively, the ferragamo would crush a much more high end Christmas party. Really strikes a balance of classic and simple but fun and out. 10/10

A red Kate spade leather crossbody. It features a cross cross quilted pattern of small inflated pearls.

A red Ferragamo Saffiano leather clutch. It is bright red with a bright metallic buckle at the center top.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 2d

Finally, some really great coachtopia pieces. I know that the line is supposed to be their youth line, but these feel fun while being more mature. i do notice in my classes and on the street that the youth are moving away from color, so maybe these make more sense than I think. I love them though!

A white coachtopia leather top handle shoulder bath. It has black ribbons affixed where the handle meets the body of the bag.

A black leather Coachtopia crossbody bag. It’s small and rectangular and features square embossed panels.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 2d

Another really fun Coach duo. I am such a sucker for sequins. I love the evening bag. As I said, I don’t wear much silver, but I could definitely get use out of that going out on a weekend night!

A lavender coach sequin top handle bag. It looks like a cosmetics bag.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 2d

A beautiful pair, a more traditional bucket bag and then the bucket wristlet. You’d hate to break up the kids! There is also a matching backpack up too! I love the print, it’s so fun, but I just don’t think bucket bags are for me.

A leather coach bucket bag. The print is of bright red cherries on a white background.

A white leather coach bucket bag wristlet with a bright red cherry print.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 2d

A ton of great coach pieces are up this week. Here’s 3 I liked a lot! As much as I post about the wilder or more daring designs, my heart is always with more classic looks I think I could have more excuses to wear. I don’t think I’d wear the yellow but the others are rare gold hardware from coach!

A pale pink coach evening bag. It has pink floral motifs!

A pale yellow patent coach crossbody bag. It feels 60’s?

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 2d

Weekly TRR bag roundup! It felt like week of mostly classic looks, so not a ton to react to, but a lot to like! A 🧵

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 2d

But the 'specialism' debate also found its way into higher education! It really seems like a larger social issue around widespread specialization and its possible individual and social consequences.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 2d

Victorian 'savans' discourse seems to play out in the medical field through a war in the medical journals over the merits of 'specialism', which also sees a very distinct rise in ngram results starting around 1850 and peaking around 1900.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 4d

The only thing I’ve found is that Rousseau talks at length about the rise & merits of the savans in the French complete works released in 1797. I can’t imagine that explains the whole phenomenon, especially in the English speaking work though. Or how the term came to be ubiquitous before dying off.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 4d

It is very odd! It does seem to be part of a larger conversation in the period (Martineau, Naden and her critics, maybe Wells on my reading). The ngram results for ‘savans’ are very interesting too! Would be really curious to figure out why this discourse took off.

The Google books ngram search results for ‘Savan’ and ‘savans’ . It shows a relatively low flat line from the 1500’s on until about 1797 when a sharp spike begins, peaking in the 1850’s and returning to a flat low line like before right after 1900.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 5d

Increasingly convinced that we should be reading Johann Stallo. Emerson quotes him, Russell references him repeatedly, so does Naden, and Mach sees himself as a fellow traveler with Stallo. He’s often identified as a Hegelian, but he later dismissed this work and starts doing philosophy of science.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 5d

Also relating to the 'savans' discourse, Constance Naden's "Is the Increasing Predominance of Brain over Muscle Conducive to National Welfare?" (1883) raises a concern about savans that looks a lot like the morlocks and the eloi in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895)!

an excerpt. It reads: I have now tried to show that the increasing predominance of mind over muscle is prejudicial
to national welfare, because it promotes excessive specialisation, thus contracting the sphere of human
sympathies, and widening the breach between the classes of which a nation is composed and also
because severe and continuous exercise of the brain tends to the disuse and consequent atrophy of
other parts of the body, inducing an unhealthy condition which must in time react upon the organ of
mind. The heart-which is a muscle-will revenge itself upon the brain. A nation which has forgotten
how to enjoy, will soon forget how to think-and the sooner the better.

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 5d

Is it the Rousseau that causes this? Anyone know why this term took off in the victorian period? It looks like it fell out of favor for 'scientist' but it also seems like the discourse (the question of whether this is good or not) died down too. Why did it end?

a google ngram chart for 'scientist' and 'scientists' showing the term be relatively flat and minimal until taking off sometime between 1860 and 1875.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 5d

There's a striking explosion in use of the term in the Victorian period. Where does this come from? As near as I can tell, the inflection point seems to be roughly around 1797 and the only publication I can find from then that uses the term heavily is the French language complete works of Rousseau.

a google ngram chart for 'savan' and 'savans' showing the term be relatiely flat and minimal until a spike around 1800 which peaks around 1850 and returns back to virtually zero around 1900.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 5d

The question of savans seems to be whether this kind of specialization is good for an individual or for society. I'm wondering where this discourse comes from. Obviously the rise of the phenomenon contributes to the rise of the discourse about it, but I mean about 'savans' in particular.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 5d

the victorians seem very interested in the question of 'savans', which they use to refer to scientists and scholars, especially relating to the emergence of scientific or scholarly specialization and the hobbyist scholar. For instance, Martineau refers to Darwin, Spencer, and Huxley as savans.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 7d

But Russell wants to position himself as doing something much more revolutionary than that, so he draws the line back to Hegel to give what analytic philosophy represents less context, not more.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 7d

We can read moore as continuing a larger tradition of Victorian common sense philosophy (e.g., Billing and even Berkeley before that), and Russell as a further development of the panpsychism that was popular from Conway and Cavendish through the Victorian era.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 7d

In this way, Russell recasts the British idealists (and himself) as a downstream reaction to Hegel rather than both being a continuation of positions in the Victorian era. For instance, just as we could read Green, Bosanquet, and Bradley as incorporations of Hegel into a larger idealistic tradition,

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 7d

It’s true that they turn British idealism towards Hegel, but they are just some in a long line and a much larger pool of British thinkers with idealistic tendencies or who are outright idealists (Mill, Lewins, Lewes, Clifford, Naden, Besant, etc.). Many of whom are much more humean than Hegelian.

emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 7d

It’s interesting that analytic philosophy, mostly by way of Russell, reads the British idealists as a movement started by Green, Bradley, and Bosanquet and inspired by Hegel through Stirling’s 1865 Secret of Hegel. That’s the boundary…