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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. Weaving together ...
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However, Asma considers that Sousanis makes good use of 19th-century novelist Edward A. Abbot’s 1884 novel Flatland to show the different dimensions of perception and further his “project of unflattening human potential.” He also praises Sousanis’s “breathtaking” illustrations and his use of the comic form to “illustrate the kind of marriage of perspectives” that can lead to a ...
There’s a final problem in Unflattening that I think needs addressing. Sousanis is adept at teasing out the multiple perspectives that can be brought to bear on a given object or idea, but his book doesn’t satisfactorily teach us how to agree about anything. It’s all well and good to teach ourselves to seek out unacknowledged points of ...
Jun 12, 2015 · Nick Sousanis’ Unflattening is a thesis-as-comic developed from the author’s doctoral dissertation for Teachers College Columbia University. Sousanis argues that images are not subordinate to words, but equal partners in the articulation of thought, and that sequential art is a vital scholarly alternative to either visual or verbal communication alone.
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May 19, 2015 · Nick Sousanis’ recent book Unflattening has been receiving praise for its freeing message and artistic execution. The book was Sousanis’ doctoral dissertation, and in being a graphic work, it thus embodies its message of attempting to break through the confines of the “flatlands” of received viewpoints that unconsciously pervade the ways we see the world.
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.
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Jul 20, 2015 · That’s what the book is about, if it’s about anything. Unflattening—both the book and the concept—is talking about multimodality, about interdisciplinarity, about image-text, it’s both public and scholarly. It’s saying that we need to dimensionalize the kinds of conversations we have rather than coming at them head-on.
