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…

- 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…

- 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 stereotypes," …

- 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 as images that we cannot get …

- 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 of ob…

- 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 should be treated the same, when it c…

- 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 with the compute…

- W. J. T. Mitchell

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

- W. J. T. Mitchell