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All Ears : The Aesthetics of Espionage.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (171 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823273973
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: All EarsDDC classification:
  • 327.1209
LOC classification:
  • BH39 .S946 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- (No) More Ears: A Preface to the English- Language Edition -- Translator's Note -- Entrance: The Spies of Jericho -- Discipline and Listen -- Before the Wiretap -- Overhearing and Diaphony -- A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon) -- Mastery and Metrics in Figaro -- The Ages of Fear -- Telelistening and Telesurveillance -- A Secret Conversation -- Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow -- In the Footsteps of Orpheus -- The Trackers, with Hidden Noise -- The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around -- On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's -- The Phantom of the Opera -- Wozzeck at the Moment of His Death -- Adorno, the Informer -- Exit: J.D.'s Dream -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Summary: An archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- (No) More Ears: A Preface to the English- Language Edition -- Translator's Note -- Entrance: The Spies of Jericho -- Discipline and Listen -- Before the Wiretap -- Overhearing and Diaphony -- A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon) -- Mastery and Metrics in Figaro -- The Ages of Fear -- Telelistening and Telesurveillance -- A Secret Conversation -- Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow -- In the Footsteps of Orpheus -- The Trackers, with Hidden Noise -- The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around -- On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's -- The Phantom of the Opera -- Wozzeck at the Moment of His Death -- Adorno, the Informer -- Exit: J.D.'s Dream -- Notes -- Bibliography.

An archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive.

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