Also wanted to mention kind of an unimportant point but something I thought was interesting in the Mitchell reading on word and image-
“Traditional cliches about visual culture… are based on the tacit assumptions of the superiority of words to visual images. Even in the most basic phenomenological reflections on intersubjectivity, the ‘self’ is constructed as a speaking and seeing subject, the ‘other’ as a silent, observable object, a visual image (60)”
“Image” in its passivity is considered inferior to “word.” I had never really thought about the physical implications of these words that might unconsciously make us biased towards one over the other. This hierarchy has become a part of the “natural” semiotic and aesthetic order.