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“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 stereotypes," and I think the reality is we can't help but think in stereotypes.”

W. J. T. Mitchell

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

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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