Serious illness has typically been explored as emergent within the relatively linear unfolding of the steady march of time. Here, focusing on cancer and drawing on the accounts of patient/carer dyads, we propose a relational ontology of the affective and temporal entanglements of living-with disease. Emphasising the iterative intra-activity of vital matter and social meaning as they are repatterned across time, we examine the enfolding of various temporal, affective and normative dis/continuities that become particularly meaningful – or are made to matter – in the context of living/dying-with cancer. We focus on the social practices of ‘making memories’, ‘anticipating absence’ and ‘maintaining normal’ which reveal the entanglement of seemingly discrete categories such as self and other, here and gone, and past, present and future. Living-with cancer thus emerges as more than an illness/caring experience, but rather as instructive in contributing to a relational understanding of everyday life.

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纠缠与疏远：与癌症相关的生与死

严重疾病通常被认为是在稳定的时间流逝的相对线性展开中出现的。在这里，我们关注癌症并借鉴患者/护理人员二人组的描述，提出了与疾病共存的情感和时间纠缠的关系本体论。强调重要物质和社会意义的迭代内在活动，因为它们随着时间的推移而被重新设计，我们研究了各种时间、情感和规范不连续性的包含，这些不连续性在生活/死于癌症。我们专注于“制造记忆”、“预期缺席”和“维持正常”的社会实践，揭示了自我和他者、现在和过去、过去、现在和未来等看似离散的类别的纠缠。