Event

What happens when sonic surveillance reaches its limit, when overhearing hears too much, exhausts itself, uses itself up, and turns into over-hearing?  Disengtangling the bonds between listening, sovereignty, and secrecy, I ask what use of the ear remains once it is worn out.  Taking the figure of the monarch chained to the throne, I investigate the experience of sonic captivation/captivilty.  In the interval between the Strip and the prison, between spectacle and surveillance, I examine how post-Fordist urbanisms retune the ear until we voluntarily chain ourselves to our chairs.