| All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage Contributor(s): Szendy, Peter (Author), Végső, Roland (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0823273962 ISBN-13: 9780823273966 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Social Science | Media Studies - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 327.12 |
| LCCN: 2016015036 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vegső, Roland: - Roland Végső is Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Szendy, Peter: - Peter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University and musicological advisor for the concert programs at the Paris Philharmonie. His books include Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience; All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage; Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World; Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials; Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox; and Listen: A History of Our Ears.. |