I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it,… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field. — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I see stereotypes as fundamental and inescapable and not as something that is... The kind of common view is "Oh, we shouldn't think in… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that we couldn't… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in our time… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Objectivism is basically the same thing as faith-based science or for that matter faith-based foreign policy, where you start out with the assumption "We… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
