Ana Ramos

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Ana Ramos (PhD, Université de Montréal, 2016) is a participant in the 3ecologies project. Her work is devoted to process philosophy inquiry, drawing on both affect theory and media aesthetics. Her research, anchored in the field of philosophy of communication, examines questions concerning mediation, perception, and affective immersion. Her latest publication, “Becoming-Body: Embodiment and Affect Experience” (Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts), discusses the aesthetics of being a body by fostering a dynamic approach to subjectivity that highlights the primacy of relation. She is working on a book manuscript called (Im)Mediation, Affective Entanglements, and Communication Theory.

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  • Powered by Affect: Affective Territories and Sound Materiality (2025) author(s): Ana Ramos published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    This article discusses sonic materiality through Alfred North Whitehead’s organicist materialism. The sonic materiality that is here outlined is not related to sound vibration. Materiality should here be understood in the sense of actuality and concreteness. Anything that produces an effect bears a qualitative difference. The actualization of qualitative difference is concreteness. It is in this sense that sonic materiality is developed in parallel with spatiality. The liveliness of this space emergence is that of affect; its concreteness is that of affect. It is based on Affect theory that we may understand its experience as an immersion in a concrete but abstract qualitative difference, an abstract materiality. Thus, the sonic materiality departs from a conventional conception of objects to foster a sonic object that constitutes itself through relationality and extensive connections. The empirical concept of affective territory speculatively attempts to grasp the spreading out of affect expressiveness through these connections to track its effects in experience.
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