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“Ranging across a wide range of disciplines―the arts, the sciences, popular culture, critical theory―Sousanis argues that the verbal and the visual are inextricably entwined in the production of knowledge… It is a book that is dense with the syntheses of ideas, nimble, far-reaching and impossible to summarize. It liberates itself from the standard layout of panels within frames, teaching the eye and mind to read the unfailingly intelligent black-and-white artwork in unconventional and new ways. Unflattening deserves a place as a compulsory textbook in schools.”―Neel Mukherjee, New Statesman“Although the implications are profound, Unflattening is less an insurrection than a carefully argued case for rethinking our priorities about art and learning. Unflattening is above all a humane piece of scholarship which challenges our assumptions about perception.”―Matt Finch, Brooklyn Rail“If you prefer your mind-melt, dimension-bending comics with less costumes and melodrama, Nick Sousanis’ cerebral exploration of psychology and perspective offers a refreshing palate cleanser… Presented with a visual vocabulary that will blow readers minds in the most scholarly way possible.”―Sean Edgar, Paste“Sousanis’s drawings are first rate and his writing style economical. To demonstrate how introducing new vantage points expands our thinking, he explores a range of philosophical concepts, calling on Plato, Copernicus, and even the ‘fifth dimension’ explored in the TV series The Twilight Zone.”―Jan Gardner, Boston Globe“Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening is a genuine oddity, a philosophical treatise in comics form. ‘Flatness,’ for Sousanis’s purposes, is not the quality of abstraction that Clement Greenberg lauded in modern art, but the lamentable condition of the inhabitants of Edwin A. Abbott’s ‘Flatland’: the inability to understand that there might be more than one can immediately perceive. The solution he proposes is admitting visual elements, and especially drawings, into the intellectual domain of language. (Psst―he’s talking about comics!)”―Douglas Wolk, New York Times Book Review“If Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics charmingly investigated the history, development, and formal features of visual narrative, Unflattening is its equally brilliant epistemological counterpart. With profound depth and insight, Sousanis looks at how the ‘unflattening’ possibilities of this form of storytelling allow us to see the world from entirely new perspectives… Written with remarkable clarity and insight, its sometimes-haunting, sometimes-breathtaking illustrations prove the book’s arguments about how visual information can shape our understanding… Weaving together language, perception, and the theory of knowledge in an investigation of how the multidimensional possibilities of graphic storytelling can awaken us to ways of knowing from multiple perspectives, Sousanis has made a profound contribution to the field of comics studies and to semiotics, epistemology, and the burgeoning study of visible thinking. Essential reading for anyone seeking to create, critique, or consider the visual narrative form.”―Publishers Weekly (starred review)“An important book, Unflattening is consistently innovative, using abstraction alongside realism, using framing and the (dis)organization of the page to represent different modes of thought. The words and images speak for themselves and succeed on their own terms. I couldn’t stop reading it.”―Henry Jenkins, author of Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Society“Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening is a complex, beautiful, delirious meditation on just about everything under the sun; a unique and bracing read.”―Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics and Making Comics“An incisive meditation on the relationship between text and images.”―David Dabscheck, New York Observer“Entirely non-narrative, the book takes on the dichotomy between words and images in Western thought and argues that both are simultaneously involved in the production of meaning. Executed in sharp black-and-white diagrams, and abstract and geometric images, this scintillatingly intelligent book succeeds in the great feat of holding the reader’s attention not through a story but through ideas. Sousanis’s own book is the perfect illustration of the inextricability of the verbal and the visual.”―Neel Mukherjee, The Independent

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About the Author

Nick Sousanis is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University.

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Product details

Paperback: 208 pages

Publisher: Harvard University Press (April 20, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0674744438

ISBN-13: 978-0674744431

Product Dimensions:

7.5 x 1 x 10.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.4 out of 5 stars

70 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#50,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

In "Unflattening", Nick Sousanis adapts his Ed.D. dissertation, "Unflattening: A Visual-Verbal Inquiry into Learning in Many Dimension," into a full-length graphic novel that explores the privileged place that text has long held in our culture, arguing that text and image must work together as an educational tool. Necessarily, any written review will not capture the point of this work, so any oversimplifications are my own. Sousanis writes of the history of comics, "At this juncture, it's time to attend to the intricacies, peel away and delve into the inner workings of this hybrid form (meant to be both read and viewed). First, it's name - ever a prickly topic. The one it came with conceals its potential. [comic books, comics] Hence, a quest for respectability: grander varieties put forth [graphic novel]; more descriptive titles adopted [sequential art]; each highlighting specific features [picture writing, image-text, graphein, commmix]. From different climates [manga], distinct offshoots arose [bandes dessinées, fumetti]. While often seen as a budding form, it's an evolving dialect, in constant cultivation. Its lineage runs deep. Its history our own. A means of grappling with experience before we had names for it. Comics, as I prefer, 'by any other name would small as sweet'" (pg. 60). As to their use, Sousanis writes, "Perhaps in comics, this amphibious language of juxtapositions and fragments - we have such a form" to fulfill Bertrand Russell's longing for a language that expresses "all relations by analogous relations" (pg. 67). In the course of his work, Sousanis draws upon other comics theorists like Scott McCloud, thereby contributing to the growing field of comics studies. Furthermore, Sousanis makes extensive use of Edwin Abbott Abbott's 1884 novella, "Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions", which used metaphor and satire to open readers' minds to the role of dimensionality in our conception of the world. After summarizing the story, Sousanis extends this metaphor to the role of image and text in how we conceive of ourselves and the world around us, thereby engaging with theories of phenomenology. Sousanis concludes, "The means to rise up and upend our thinking are found in this tumbling of relations. Unflattening, we remind ourselves of what it is to open our eyes to the world for the first time" (pg. 151-152). "Unflattening" belongs in the libraries of any who study comics theory, cultural history, or phenomenology.

4.5 stars, but 5 for the effort. The ideas are not altogether new or unfamiliar; if you know McCloud's Understanding Comics, or have read Lakoff and Johnson's Metaphors We Live By, you're used to this kind of reframing the world. But it's a lovely work, nevertheless, and many of the pages do demand fresh reading approaches.

This is one of the few academic thesis to be accepted as a graphic which makes it worthy of serious consideration not only for the work itself but the challenge that it offers for a rather prosaic and conservative process for recognizing scholarship. The drawings are dense and one wonders whether the publisher understands book art (not art books) in its choice of how to publish the material or whether there will be an edition produced more in line with book art publishing. 5 stars for the author tempered by the choice of how to publish this work.

Unflattening is the book I gift the most. I love it because it inspires us “to discover new ways of seeing, to open spaces for possibilities, and to find ‘fresh methods’ for animating and awakening.” Sousanis accomplishes this with the most beautiful and compelling visual storytelling flair: Unflattening is a black and white comic that will make you reconsider how much imagination can be bottled on the printed page. “Imagination lets us exceed our inevitably limited point of view to find perspectives not in existence or dimensions not yet accessible.” This book most inspires me to creative ambition.

Did you know a dissertation can be a comic book? An inventive approach that can be appreciated by researchers and by graphic novel enthusiasts. Easily the most engaging dissertation I have ever read.

Unflattening is a breakthrough work, taking the art of comics and elevating it to new heights. Sousanis integrates a range of different fields, from history and philosophy, to physics and social psychology, to address new and important ways of thinking about thinking. At the center of it all is an advocacy for drawing as a form of cognition vital to honing our twenty-first century literacies. This is a masterwork. If I could afford it, I would give a copy to everyone I know. (And I've already dispensed several.) Buy this book. You will find yourself reading it again and again.

While Sousanis focused on the graphic medium, his explanation of looking at anything from a broader perspective helps all of us to see our world and lives more clearly.

I didn't realize until I received this book that it is actually in the form of a graphic novel! Every page is full of really beautiful, detailed black-and-white illustrations. The language and concepts can get a bit heavy at points, but the images make it an entertaining read nonetheless.

Fantastic and fun read - not just for insight into graphic media, but an instructive set of metaphors for personal growth as well.

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