04 US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Bay is to some extent unique. It is a subcategory of the delimitation of particular spaces as having a different role in the legal order. The US judicial system is now wrestling with the question of what kind of constitutional rights someone has who is held in a military base under the war powers - a territory under United States legal jurisidiction, but in which civil rights do not apply. Guantanamo is in a sense the extreme of such an extraterritorial space as it is not even in the country although it is under the control of the country. (Peter Marcuse interviewed by An Architektur, 11/2002)

February 2003
28 p., german

with XXXXX contributions by:

Judith Butler
Guantanamo Limbo
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The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Detainees and the Legal System

telephone interview with Kenneth Hurwitz, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights


thematic elaboration for:

Under Fire
contribution to the exhibition of work exploring the organization and representation of contemporary armed conflict
I Space, Gallery of the University of Illinois Chicago, 09 – 10/2006


Extra-Territorial Spaces and Camps in the 'War on Terrorism'
contribution to the exhibition Territories, Kunst-Werke, Berlin and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 05/2003 – 01/2004
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radio feature within the scope of ErsatzRadio
a project of ErsatzStadt in cooperation with Volksbühne, Berlin, 06/2003

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