Download e-book for kindle: All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage by Peter Szendy,Roland Végső

By Peter Szendy,Roland Végső

ISBN-10: 0823273954

ISBN-13: 9780823273959

ISBN-10: 0823273962

ISBN-13: 9780823273966

the area of overseas politics has lately been rocked by means of a likely never-ending sequence of scandals concerning auditory surveillance: the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping is in basic terms the main sensational instance of what seems to be a common perform at the present time. what's the resource of this generalized precept of eavesdropping?

All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage strains the lengthy historical past of moles from the Bible, via Jeremy Bentham’s “panacoustic” venture, all of the approach to the intelligence-gathering community known as “Echelon.” including this archeology of auditory surveillance, Szendy deals an enticing account of spycraft’s representations in literature (Sophocles, Shakespeare, Joyce, Kafka, Borges), opera (Monteverdi, Mozart, Berg), and picture (Lang, Hitchcock, Coppola, De Palma).

Following within the footsteps of Orpheus, the ebook proposes a brand new idea of “overhearing” that connects the act of spying to an over the top intensification of listening. on the center of listening Szendy locates the ear of the opposite that manifests itself because the originary department of a “split-hearing” that turns the force for mastery and surveillance into the dying drive.

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