具体描述
The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? 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 diverse ways of seeing drawn from science, philosophy, art, literature, and mythology, it uses the collage-like capacity of comics to show that perception is always an active process of incorporating and reevaluating different vantage points. While its vibrant, constantly morphing images occasionally serve as illustrations of text, they more often connect in nonlinear fashion to other visual references throughout the book. They become allusions, allegories, and motifs, pitting realism against abstraction and making us aware that more meets the eye than is presented on the page.
In its graphic innovations and restless shape-shifting, Unflattening is meant to counteract the type of narrow, rigid thinking that Sousanis calls “flatness.” Just as the two-dimensional inhabitants of Edwin A. Abbott’s novella Flatland could not fathom the concept of “upwards,” Sousanis says, we are often unable to see past the boundaries of our current frame of mind. Fusing words and images to produce new forms of knowledge, Unflattening teaches us how to access modes of understanding beyond what we normally apprehend.
作者简介
Nick Sousanis is a comics artist and an educator. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Comics Studies at the University of Calgary.
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A good one in conjunction with Scott McCloud. But I got annoyed as I read, just wanted to get through the words without thinking about the images.
评分作者重视图像的表达而简化了文字，让文字变得更加具有符号性质了。如果能对接上这些符号后面的想法，是本非常有意思的书。无论是科学还是语言都有把符号（信息）当作现实的倾向。（这是另一个有趣话题...
评分真的是博士论文？！爸爸！您就是爸爸呀
评分maybe inspiring
评分有一个论点很认同：媒介对思维形状产生影响。图像小说则能兼有文字的序列性和图像的同时性。但我并不觉得这本书自己在两者上有多么出色。里面的画乍看之下很丰富，却常常只是文字的辅助，不是那种自身令人凝视许久的、非图像不可的图像。叙事方式和图像风格也非常cliche。还有一些比较琐碎的图案似乎只是为了充斥满页面。（像无法忍受安静的美国人会做的事）而文字的话，让人怀疑是否达到博士论文标准。可悲的是图像的交织让人无法像论文一样严肃对待里面的观点。有时候特别天真和粗线条，说了等于没说让我怀疑这是不是一本鸡汤书。比如用想象力来填补人和人之间的沟壑…我不如去多读读主体间性呢？用新的眼光和视角看待既有事物，不如去看看情境主义国际呢？我为什么要读你的二手资料？
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