"Suffering, Ineffability and Radical Bodily Doubt" and One Event This Week

On illness as a transformative experience.

Hello readers!

Enjoy the Sunday Read today! It’s from Crossing the Floods, which you can still buy as a digital copy for only £6.99 ($9.40 usd)! On Monday, don’t miss another in our “Philosophies of the South” series: “On Indigenous Inhumanities”!

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Sunday Read

“Suffering, Ineffability and Radical Bodily Doubt”: An essay by Havi Carel

Havi Carel explores the challenge of articulating and understanding suffering, focusing on illness as a deeply embodied and transformative experience. Drawing on phenomenology, she examines how illness profoundly reshapes a person’s relationship to their body, identity and environment. Carel reveals how illness disrupts the taken-for-granted certainty of bodily existence, leading to ‘bodily doubt’. This gives way to uncertainty, vulnerability and sometimes the collapse of agency itself.

Read it here, and feel free to comment on the article in the comments below!

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Monday Event: June 8th ~ 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm BST

“On Indigenous Inhumanities”

Mark Minch-de Leon in conversation with Krushil Watene

Register here, free or by donation. Check out Mark Minch-de Leon’s book, Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies after the Apocalypse, and hope to see you Monday!

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Enjoy today’s essay!

Marie Snyder, Substack Manager