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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
Thing: a conceptual place-holder
for all possible particular beings,
extant or ideal
Things
Metaphysics Epistemology Aesthetics Ontology
real true beautiful existing
Our problems are
problems with things
Collections can show the
love of things
The
rhetorical is
capable of
being
otherwise in
shared time
of…what?Rhetoric
Time: before and after contained in
the now
Being possibly otherwise in
shared time
Shared time is still structured time
Pathosemotion/mood
already
Ethoscomportment
for-the-sake-of
Logosspeaking
presence
Poros Penia
Expediency Poverty
Love over time: Regeneration
Collected, collector, collection
SoughtCollected moved
collector
MaintainedCollector cares
for collection
Gathered Collector brings collected together as a
collection
The collected is desired and
sought after
UK2BAB
Uzbekistan
Lat: 41.4000000
Long: 63.7900000
The collector
maintains the
collected
The collection gathers collected and collector
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