![]() 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. Unflattening is an insurrection against the fixed viewpoint. 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. ![]() 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. ![]() The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. ![]() Watch Nick Sousanis describe how to “think in comics” at Duke University’s 2019 Neurodiversities Symposium : ![]()
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