Dr Jamie Stephenson is a Part-Time Lecturer at York St John University and Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute (LAHRI) at the University of Leeds. He has published in "The Modernist Review", "Open Philosophy", "Echinox", "CePRA", and "KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time". Jamie has presented research papers at national and international conferences in York, Leeds, London, Bucharest, and Copenhagen. His work is concerned with ontology conceived of as if it were sonic, rather than, as he claims is commonplace in the history of Western thinking, metaphorised as visual. He explores methods for retuning classic metaphysical inquiry, via an aesthetics of sound, in a manner that disrupts Western philosophy’s anthropocentrism (and its facilitative grammar of visualism), in pursuit of an ontological democracy.