Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Fearsome Cactus Curtain

A Time magazine article from the 60's that discusses the entrenched American forces at Gitmo.

Image?

History of Guantanamo Bay

Hey, I found a three volume intensive history of Guantanamo Bay that should help us construct our maps according to the timeline.

https://www.cnic.navy.mil/Guantanamo/AboutGTMO/gtmohistgeneral/gtmohistmurphy/gtmohistmurphyvol1/gtmohistmurphyvol1ch23/gtmohistmurphyvol1ch23

Monday, January 26, 2009

Heavily Detailed Maps

Found some maps, some we have, some we don't.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Information on the Base

Here are links with information in regards to the installations on the base.

Lassiter Fuel Farms

Gold Hill Barracks

Wharves and Piers, link is about evasion of threats (tropical storms) and strategies for the best course of action.
Timeline of Guantanamo Bay, Landmarks and Roads

Guantanamo Public Schools - The Better Place To Be

After a forehead slap and a groan, I stumbled upon a treasure trove of information on the general infrastructure of the GTMO military base from none other than Google Maps. As we plotted the locations on the KIP print map, we noticed that there was a high school and an elementary school.

This is their school website.

It's surreal to see what the kids that go to W.T. Sampson Elementary and High School will be having for lunch next month.

Spatialized Indistinction of Omnipresence

Guantanamo is the principle object.
The following is an excerpt from “Zones of Indistinction – Security, Terror, and Bare Life” in Territories 2003 p. 42
“The building should be visible from all over town, preferably built on a small mountain. It should be non-transparent and dark. As the prisoners internalized the gaze of authority, the citizens would internalize the risk of imprisonment. The ban could strike all – again, sovereignty reins in potentia, omnipresent yet not necessarily real or actual. “It is the apparent punishment, therefore that does all the service, I mean in the way of example, which is the principle object. It is the real punishment that does all the mischief.” (Bentham 1988: 170; quoted in Bozovic 1995: 4)”

The Other Side

This is a photo gallery of the military base at Gitmo.

Come see the softer side of fear.

Waterslides?!