Pity and Instruction in the Hand-Made Lost-Pet Poster
A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities codes 312 hand-made lost-pet posters photographed on suburban power poles into six rhetorical moves, finding that posters re-issued during a long search trade their appeal to a stranger's sympathy for instructions to a deputised searcher, with the warning not to chase learnt from the search itself.
| Authors | Ylva Onyekwere , Runa Adegoke , Anneke Tolan |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Funding | Anticipatory Capability Fund: Redrafting the School Newsletter's Term-Ahead Column Before the Copy-Paste Sets In ( $196,742) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.or3xzs |
| Pages | 1 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_or3xzs,
author = {Ylva Onyekwere and Runa Adegoke and Anneke Tolan},
title = {Do Not Chase: Pity and Instruction in the Hand-Made Lost-Pet Poster},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.or3xzs},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-rhetorical-move-or3xzs/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}