1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910149580003321

Autore

Szendy Peter

Titolo

All Ears : The Aesthetics of Espionage / / Peter Szendy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016]

©2018

ISBN

0-8232-7398-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VégsőRoland

Disciplina

327.12

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Espionage

Motion pictures - Aesthetics

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Opera

Bentham

Coppola

Deleuze

Derrida

Foucault

Kafka

Mozart

Orpheus

espionage

surveillance

MUSIC / History & Criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910674050803321

Autore

Wojciechowski Szymon

Titolo

Advances in Hard-to-Cut Materials : Manufacturing, Properties, Process Mechanics and Evaluation of Surface Integrity / / Szymon Wojciechowski, Radosaw W. Maruda, Grzegorz Królczyk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages)

Disciplina

620.11296

Soggetti

Thermal conductivity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The rapid growth of modern industry has resulted in a growing demand for construction materials with excellent operational properties. However, the improved features of these materials can significantly



hinder their manufacture and, therefore, they can be defined as hard-to-cut. The main difficulties during the manufacturing/processing of hard-to-cut materials are attributed especially to their high hardness and abrasion resistance, high strength at room or elevated temperatures, increased thermal conductivity, as well as resistance to oxidation and corrosion. Nowadays, the group of hard-to-cut materials is extensive and still expanding, which is attributed to the development of a novel manufacturing techniques (e.g., additive technologies). Currently, the group of hard-to-cut materials mainly includes hardened and stainless steels, titanium, cobalt and nickel alloys, composites, ceramics, as well as the hard clads fabricated by additive techniques. This Special Issue, "Advances in Hard-to-Cut Materials: Manufacturing, Properties, Process Mechanics and Evaluation of Surface Integrity", provides the collection of research papers regarding the various problems correlated with hard-to-cut materials. The analysis of these studies reveals the primary directions regarding the developments in manufacturing methods, characterization, and optimization of hard-to-cut materials.