Quotes About Misrecognition

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

I get recognised by complete strangers in pubs, misrecognised by them and I dont have to work every weekend of my life anymore which is nice.

Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.

you are always lost when the first recognition is a misrecognition

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

John Comaroff, an anthropologist, has written that history is 'any succession of rupturing events which together bring to recognition our misunderstandings and misrecognition of the present'.