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Things The Love of Cate Morrison, Ph.D Department of Communication Studies Harrington School of Communication and Media

The Love of Things, Cate Morrison

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For the 2014 University of Rhode Island Academic Summit, I gave a five minute talk about things, time, love and collections. For lovers of QSL cards, rhetoricians, phenomenologists and ontologists.

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ThingsThe Love of

Cate Morrison, Ph.D

Department of Communication Studies

Harrington School of Communication and Media

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Thing: a conceptual place-holder

for all possible particular beings,

extant or ideal

Things

Metaphysics Epistemology Aesthetics Ontology

real true beautiful existing

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Our problems are

problems with things

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Collections can show the

love of things

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The

rhetorical is

capable of

being

otherwise in

shared time

of…what?Rhetoric

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Time: before and after contained in

the now

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Being possibly otherwise in

shared time

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Shared time is still structured time

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Pathosemotion/mood

already

Ethoscomportment

for-the-sake-of

Logosspeaking

presence

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Poros Penia

Expediency Poverty

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Love over time: Regeneration

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Collected, collector, collection

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SoughtCollected moved

collector

MaintainedCollector cares

for collection

Gathered Collector brings collected together as a

collection

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The collected is desired and

sought after

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UK2BAB

Uzbekistan

Lat: 41.4000000

Long: 63.7900000

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The collector

maintains the

collected

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The collection gathers collected and collector

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