W. J. T. Mitchell is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He was the editor of Critical Inquiry from 1978 to 2020, and is the author of Image Science: Iconology, Media Aesthetics, and Visual Culture, published by Chicago University Press in 2015.
W. J. T. Mitchell
Articles
From Robots to iBots: The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence
W. J. T. Mitchell asks, What kind of intelligence does AI actually represent?
Mental Traveler
LARB presents an excerpt from W. J. T. Mitchell's "Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey Through Schizophrenia."
Reply to W. J. T. Mitchell’s “The Trolls of Academe”
David Horowitz responds to W. J. T. Mitchell's "The Trolls of Academe," and Mitchell offers his own rebuttal to Horowitz's reply.
The Trolls of Academe: Making Safe Spaces into Brave Spaces
W. J. T. Mitchell on David Horowitz and the alt-right assaults on free speech.
American Psychosis: Trumpism and the Nightmare of History
"Insanity in individuals is somewhat rare. But in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule." — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Evolution of the Last Dinosaur
Relatives and relationships, born or adopted, provide the fundamental social thematics of "The Good Dinosaur."
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