All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage

by Peter Szendy

Book Overview

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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823273962
• ISBN13: 9780823273966
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"