W. J. T. Mitchell

We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

I see stereotypes as fundamental and inescapable and not as something that is... The kind of common view is "Oh, we shouldn't…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

— W. J. T. Mitchell

I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Objectivism is basically the same thing as faith-based science or for that matter faith-based foreign policy, where you start out with the…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses,…

— W. J. T. Mitchell