... gradually seep into domestic civilian life as the new norms. The gross abuses of presumed enemy combatants in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay come back to haunt us, as war crimes abroad impact behavior at home. The expansion and deformation of US prison culture—isolation, solitary confinement, and other...

... facilities at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. Numerous critics of the film underscored the visit to Cuba as the film’s most noteworthy point of extremity. Reviews inRolling Stone, the New Yorker, and Bright Lights Film Journal all pay particular attention to this visit and its contribution to the project...

... Giorgio . 1995 . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Annas George J. Crosby Sondra Glantz Leonard H. . 2013 . “ Guantanamo Bay: A Medical Ethics-Free Zone .” New England Journal...

... capitalism. Evil incarnate is personified not only in Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and al-Qaeda but also in the Muslims and Arabs interred without trial in American jails, tortured in Guantánamo, deported from American soil. Their evil justifies Bush’s crusade. ‘‘Good Arabs’’ and ‘‘good Muslims...

... the world’s prison. We see here a second legal tack employed by the Bush administration, one that seeks advantages accruing to the legal inde- terminacy of a globe checkered with territories of uncertain sovereignty. It is above all at Camp Delta in Guantánamo that one sees played out the desire...

... humiliation is, as Alfred McCoy has shown, one of the “two key techniques” with which the com- manders at Guantánamo “perfected the CIA torture paradigm” between 2002 and 2003, and which were exported to Abu Ghraib prison in August 2003, when the commander of Guantánamo, General Geoffrey Miller...

... of the majority opinion by Justice John Paul Stevens with a concur- ring opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy focused on Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, which the Court held applies to the Guantánamo detainees and is enforceable in federal court. The deci- sion emphasized...

... the possibility of bare life as the site of absolute indistinction. At the outset there can be no argument against a description of what occurs at Guantánamo Bay or even in Auschwitz in terms such that the Particularity and Exceptions  81 inhabitants occupy...

... the United States to retain its base on Guantanamo Bay while relinquishing rights of intervention, replaced the controversial pact of 1903. Documents in the Department of State on the negotia­ tions are fragmentary, and none appears in this volume. During early January the political situation under...

... for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University . Hunt Alan . 1993 . Explorations in Law and Society: Towards a Constitutive Theory of Law . London : Routledge . Hussain Nasser . 2007 . “ Beyond Norm and Exception: Guantanamo .” Critical Inquiry 33 , no. 4 : 734 – 53 . Levy...

.... Yet even if one represses the legacy of Vietnam and ignores the spate of Wild West clichés George W. Bush used to announce America’s new wars, the stories from Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, and Falluja mock the U.S. fantasy of global rule without colonial violence and submission. Indeed, in December...

... through another arena of war as well, this in an NPR story about the controversy over U.S. treat- ment of the Camp X-Ray prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Like the rest of the mainstream media, the station was paying devoted attention...

... . Rubin Ashley . 2014 . “ Resistance or Friction: Understanding the Significance of Secondary Adjustments . ” Working paper , on file with author . Savage Charlie . 2013 . “ Number of Hunger Strikers Surges at Guantanamo .” New York Times , March 20 . Schwartz Mark . 1976...

... Intervention 485 8 Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 110–11. A strategic renunciation of sover- eignty at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base has proved very useful to the current U.S...

... (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), 121–22. 6 Indeed, in his post-9/11 book, which he sees as a sequel to Homo Sacer, Agamben suggests that Guantánamo is precisely the sort of place that will lead the United States into a totali- tarian state of being. See Giorgio Agamben...

... that can arise from a nation’s self- description as a ‘‘guardian of humanity’’ might be Guantánamo Bay, the off-shore human rights ‘‘shelter leased by the United States from Cuba, so that prisoners can be held by the United States, but somehow outside the legal constraints—including those...

... include the South Dakota legisla- tive challenges to abortion, the acrimonious legal battle over sustaining the life of Terri Schiavo in Florida, and the decision to force-feed prisoners on hunger strike at the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Each of these highly politicized events...

... by saboteurs who may come from anywhere—even from within! Hence Guantánamo, the USA PATRIOT Act, the unbridling of executive power, and the concomitant emasculation of a willing Congress. The safe and “sweet land of liberty” to which we sang in grammar school is neither safe nor free. The very...

... the agent of such suffering (from its Guantánamo Bay gulag to its invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan to its continued support for increasingly brutal Israeli practices of occupation) while draping itself in the mantle of human rights, one wonders whether the project of more directly chal- lenging...

... G. M. Ridge governments to account for their actions to counter it. In South Africa the latitude this allowed the apartheid government meant progressive erosion of civil liberties until Guantánamo Bay was brought to downtown Wash- ington, DC, as it were, and most of the prisoners were...