essay question 165
Goodwin’s Professional Vision analyzes different readings of the video of Rodney King being beaten by police in Los Angeles, in terms of the way police and court experts coded, highlighted and represented the beating of King. Use Butler’s theory of performativity (and its moves of citation, iteration, materialization, performative and sedimentation) to analyze the actual courtroom practices of police & law officials that Goodwin describes.â€
Helpful hint – your response should include:
— description of the specific action or scene in courtroom
— how Goodwin interpreted this
— how Butler can interpret same thing (using terms above