Blog Assignment Two

For their second blog, students should reflect on some of Zizek's terms for violence, and then meditate on the photographs of lynching we observed in class. Are the lynchings examples of subjective or objective violence? What was the purpose of the violent lynchings? Why were they so popular? What was their connection to "punishment"? What do they say about racial identity in the US in the 19th century? Students may frame their thoughts and reactions however they wish, as they long as they write with these questions and terms in mind. Students are especially encouraged to create new arguments and vocabulary for themselves.