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….

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

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 with the compute….

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

We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it c….

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

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

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

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….

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

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," ….

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….

The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fi….

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 inf….

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