The subject-who-listens is distinct from the subject-who-hears, in terms of the difference in the object of their act: the object-that-listens has always an excess which is the result of a presence of an absence of another resonating body, the other. Listening conditions the act of listening a priori, by its insistence on the fact that the subject of one's listening is the object of the same act: listening is self-reflexive and extensive at the same time. A resonating-self is the one, wherein the other resonates. The skin is the lieu of that resonance with its own codes and therefore its own politics.