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.TRANSCRIPT
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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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Back to Things!