All Ears - The Aesthetics of Espionage (Paperback)

The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA's warrantless wiretapping is merely the most sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this generalized principle of eavesdropping? All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage traces the long history of moles from the Bible, through Jeremy Bentham's "panacoustic" project, all the way to the intelligence-gathering network called "Echelon." Together with this archeology of auditory surveillance, Szendy offers an engaging account of spycraft's representations in literature (Sophocles, Shakespeare, Joyce, Kafka, Borges), opera (Monteverdi, Mozart, Berg), and film (Lang, Hitchcock, Coppola, De Palma). Following in the footsteps of Orpheus, the book proposes a new concept of "overhearing" that connects the act of spying to an excessive intensification of listening. At the heart of listening Szendy locates the ear of the Other that manifests itself as the originary division of a "split-hearing" that turns the drive for mastery and surveillance into the death drive.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2016
First published:	2018
Authors:	Peter Szendy
Translators:	Roland Vegso
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-7396-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Espionage & secret services Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	0-8232-7396-2
Barcode:	9780823273966

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