Nick Sousanis is a comics artist and an educator. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Comics Studies at the University of Calgary.
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.
發表於2025-03-04
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形式大於內容,會畫畫真的很厲害。 諷刺的是文章核心思想仍舊是通過文字傳遞的,至少我在看書的時候第一眼是閱讀文字,再看繪畫的展現。這麼一看作者用圖像塑造一種嶄新認知方式的想法好像並沒有成功… 於是在這種情況下,作品展現的信息量和探討的深度廣度都很有限。作者的觀...
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評分形式大於內容,會畫畫真的很厲害。 諷刺的是文章核心思想仍舊是通過文字傳遞的,至少我在看書的時候第一眼是閱讀文字,再看繪畫的展現。這麼一看作者用圖像塑造一種嶄新認知方式的想法好像並沒有成功… 於是在這種情況下,作品展現的信息量和探討的深度廣度都很有限。作者的觀...
評分形式大於內容,會畫畫真的很厲害。 諷刺的是文章核心思想仍舊是通過文字傳遞的,至少我在看書的時候第一眼是閱讀文字,再看繪畫的展現。這麼一看作者用圖像塑造一種嶄新認知方式的想法好像並沒有成功… 於是在這種情況下,作品展現的信息量和探討的深度廣度都很有限。作者的觀...
圖書標籤: 漫畫 哲學 文學理論 comics 圖像小說 視覺 文化研究 歐美漫畫
比肩Scott McCloud的Understanding Comics
評分很獨特的一本書
評分文字解說教條囉嗦,充斥著對塊莖、視差之見、語言決定論等等概念的照本宣科;非常失望但不太忍心打低分
評分對任何標榜以漫畫作為媒介的作品來說,“無趣”都是一種死罪;極其囉嗦的雞湯論文,完全沒有必要做成圖像的形式,最不可接受的是在圖像方麵也毫無想象力。
評分Whenever humanity seems condemning to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into the dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and the world with fresh methods of verification and cognition.
Unflattening 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載