Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very much built upon a whole repertoire of stereotypes we carry around. And those are immediately laminated… — 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 function in the world without stereotypes. — 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
