Derek Gregory has publish an excellent new legal/geographical analysis of Guant?namo Bay: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=9540

The German architectural weekly magazine reviews the Archipelago of Exception conference in its last issue.

The spanish daily newspaper El Pais has published a review of the Archipelago conference last thursday and friday in CCCB in Barcelona.

Anselm Franke made available the full program of the Archipelago of Exception symposium from november 10 to 11, 2005, in CCCB Barcelona. Video recordings from the conference will be available here right after the event.

An earlier version of this paper by Tom Keenan was given in February 2005 at a conference in honor of Jacques Derrida jointly organized by Peter Goodrich of the Cardozo Law School and Anselm Haverkamp of New York University. Scroll down to find the PDF verison attached

If sovereignty is the power, granted by a juridical order, of proclaiming an exception to this order – as Carl Schmitt said – and if the state of exception proclaimed by a sovereign is a moment at which life is abandoned by the law, forsaken, and exposed to violence that the law does not punish – as Giorgio Agamben explains – then large-scale disasters challenge the very principle of sovereignty.