Abstracts

Elaine Cagulada (Bio)

Flower Interrupted: The Ineffable Sayability of Death and the Silence of Life Entangled

“She’s gonna die today.” What makes this utterance sayable? If we regard these words as a speech event, we might also ask, what is happening in the speaking of “she’s gonna die today”? How does the articulation of death — an articulation that confirms the avalanching absence of a beloved — speak of the delicacies of Being? Relying on methods found in interpretive disability studies and phenomenology, I meditate on the silence of enduring connection, and reflect on the event of speech as weaved to the act of perception, such that the pronouncement of death-to-arrive enables the ineffability of life entangled (in life) to be experienced.