W. J. T Mitchell
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How does a parent make sense of a child's severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry? W. J. T. Mitchell's memoir tells the story, at once representative and unique, of one family's encounter with mental illness and bears witness to the life of the talented young man who was his son.
Gabriel Mitchell was...
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In seinem Notizbuch untersucht Mitchell die visuelle Repräsentation von Wahnsinn im zeitgenössischen Kino. Die Inszenierung von Wahnsinn in Filmen aus dem 20. und 21. Jahrhundert wirft für ihn die Frage auf, ob es dem Kino in seiner Hypervisibilität gelungen ist, die Gesten des Wahnsinn spürbar zu machen. Der Bildtheoretiker glaubt daran, dass Filme es möglich machen, den Wahnsinn » aus dem Inneren heraus « zu sehen und zu hören. Dieses Sehen...
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Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the image/picture distinction, the metapicture, and the biopicture. These key concepts imply an approach to images as true objects of investigation-an "image...
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Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything...