Doors Quote by 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 think in…

— 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 a discourse…

— 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 a definite…

— 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 is very…

— 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 we couldn't…

— 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 open to…

— 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 our time…

— 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 assumption "We…

— 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 would be…

— 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 nameable or…

— 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 of, but…

— W. J. T. Mitchell