W. J. T. Mitchell

W.J.T. Mitchell is a professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is also the editor of Critical Inquiry, and contributes to the journal October. His theoretical research focuses on media theory and visual culture, with his major books being Iconology (1986), Picture Theory (1994), and the collection of essays What Do Pictures Want? (2005). He draws on ideas from Freud and Marx to make one of his major claims; that, essentially, we must consider pictures to be living things.

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University of Chicago - Critical Inquiry - Media theory - Visual culture - Freud - Marx

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