Abstract
This essay explores how rhetoric involves managing forces from the present, past, and future simultaneously by working towards a rhetorical theory grounded in an ontology of res potentiae. The existence of res potentiae, or potentialities which are non-actual but nonetheless real parts of the universe, encourages an interpretation of the social construction of the future as the actualization of real forces, including those that would be productive of more just societies. I devote particular attention to how res potentiae inform the place-making process, and argue rhetoric can access potentiality in order to produce actualities through the rendering of decisions.
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