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Mar 30, 2015 · Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge. Unflattening is an insurrection against the fixed viewpoint.
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The written text is somewhat vague and highly repetitive, but Sousanis more than compensates for this weakness with visual creativity. The artwork in this book is brilliantly conceived and exquisitely rendered. Sousanis defines “unflattening” as “a simultaneous engagement of multiple vantage points from which to engender new ways of ...
I haven't read much comics so far in life, but have read a good number of books. I tended to read non-fiction a lot : caught in the loop of non-fiction being better than fiction for the brain. But so far I've been enjoying a lot of biographies - Sam Walton, The Banana man, Andrew Carnegie. I think my top book of all time has been - The remains ...
In sum, Unflattening is at once impenetrable in its complexity and perfectly accessible in the way it uses images to transmit its ideas. Or to put it another way: readers needn’t feel intimidated, since the book’s big ideas come safely wrapped in the putatively innocuous medium of comics. Reviewer: Ian Daffern. $28.95.
Apr 20, 2015 · Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge. Unflattening is an insurrection against the fixed viewpoint.
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Overview. Unflattening began as the first comic-form dissertation at Columbia University, where Nick Sousanis completed a doctorate in education in 2014. It was published by Harvard University Press in 2015 and functions as an argument for visual thinking in teaching and learning. In 2016 the book received the further accolade of the American ...
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Apr 20, 2015 · Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge. Unflattening is an insurrection against the fixed viewpoint.
