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 informed by phenomenology, in this presentation I will reflect on the event of speech as weaved to the act of perception, such that the speech event of death-predicted-to-arrive enables the ineffability of life entangled (in life) to be experienced.