Description
This paper draws on the pre-existing conversations of autoethnography and affect theory to imagine the disposition required for agents to notice. In articulating an affective disposition to notice the paper makes an argument that our biographical histories inform not just our position as authors but as audience members as well. This positioning of the individual as an hermeneutical being opens up ways of engaging with creative forms of nonfiction. I argue that so understood individuals, in relation, have the potential to open pathways to alternative visions of the political community, imagined as widely as possible. The argument is made that affective dispositions play a role in whether such communities can, and do, incorporate the non-human alongside the human. In making this argument the paper attends to ongoing conversations within the ethical pluriverse and what this means for a more intimate rendering of ethical international relations.
