Peter Szendy

"Sur écoute: as they say it in French, written as two separate words, of someone who is put under surveillance, who is being spied upon. Mettre or placer sur écoute means to have someone’s phone tapped. Written as one word, the neologism surécoute could be understood as an intensifi cation of listening, as its hyperbolic form, taken to incandescence, to its most extreme and most active point. In short, surécoute as a synonym for auditory hyperesthesia, a superlative super-listening."
All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage (2016)

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