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 age

This essay examines the uneasy return of expertise during Covid-19 and asks how much epistemic trust a democracy can sustain without sliding into expert domination. Using the figure of the “Free Nose Guy,” it explores tensions between epistemic self-reliance, equality, and authority, arguing that distrust in experts is inseparable from social inequality while also highlighting the political effects of epistemic hierarchies.