%0 Journal Article
%T Guant¨¢namo Bodies: Law, Media, and Biopower
%A Cary Federman
%A Dave Holmes
%J MediaTropes
%D 2011
%I University of Toronto Libraries
%X The idea of the Guant¨¢namo detainee as a Muselmann, the lowest order of concentration camp inmates, contains within it important implications for the new understanding of sovereignty in the era of Guant¨¢namo, in an age of exception. The purpose of this article is to explain the status of those who are detained at Guant¨¢namo Bay. Stated broadly, in assessing that status, we will emphasize the connection between the altered meaning of sovereignty that has accompanied the placing of prisoners in an American penal colony in Cuba and the biopolitical status of the prisoners who reside there. More particularly, we will locate the points of convergence among the factors (the war on terror, sovereignty, and the media) that have produced and reconstituted the legal and ethical status of Guant¨¢namo detainees.
%K Agamben
%K biopower
%K biopolitics
%K Foucault
%K Guantanamo
%K Schmitt
%K law
%K exception
%K bio-convergence
%K bioconvergence
%U http://www.mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/15748