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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