All Ears : : The Aesthetics of Espionage / / Peter Szendy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Szendy, Peter,
• TeilnehmendeR: Végső, Roland.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; (No) More Ears: A Preface to the English- Language Edition --; Translator's Note --; Entrance: The Spies of Jericho --; Discipline and Listen --; Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow --; In the Footsteps of Orpheus --; Exit: J.D.'s Dream --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823273980; 9783110729009
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823273980
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Szendy.

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.