Non-planar

UNFLATTENING

Columbia University's first comics-format doctoral dissertation
A genius marvel that has won multiple international awards
An academic work everyone can understand
An experiment in visual thinking, exploring how humans construct knowledge systems
A rebellion against ossified views, inspiring us to break limitations and escape Flatland
◎ Editor's Recommendation
☆ An academic work everyone can understand
This book is Columbia University's first academic thesis presented in comics form, a comic about comics, a graphic novel exploring the relationship between images and text, and a visual work researching visual thinking. The form, content, and research methods are highly coordinated and unified; the work itself is a practice of its own theory, subtly guiding readers to appreciate, understand, and accept knowledge.
☆ Broad in scope, with profound practical significance; understanding this book means you have mastered how to acquire more knowledge
This book primarily researches visual thinking, multi-dimensional perspectives, and methodologies for acquiring knowledge, while also covering research findings in philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, optics, philosophy, ecology, literature, and art. Reading the world with the methods used in this book helps readers escape the confinement of "Flatland," overturn solidified, rigid, and conventional thinking, and open up dynamic, efficient, and multi-dimensional perspectives.
☆ A non-fiction comic, yet it delivers a thrilling reading experience
From one-dimensional to multi-dimensional, from Flatland to the vast universe, reading this book is like experiencing an Odyssey of the mind, filled with rich knowledge and surprising revelations. Images and text cooperate seamlessly, together creating an epic and magnificent scene.
◎ Content Introduction
Society assigns each person a fixed role; we are categorized, placed on tracks to receive instructions, and live out a flat life according to routine. A singular perspective, narrow and rigid thinking, prevents us from breaking through our limitations, and our infinite potential is stifled. We are like the residents of the novel "Flatland," never understanding the existence of higher dimensions.
"Unflattening" offers a method for recognizing and further breaking through one's limitations. It integrates multiple perspectives from science, philosophy, art, literature, and mythology, utilizing the collage capabilities of comics to teach a new mode of perception. This new perception is a dynamic process that integrates different viewpoints, opening up an innovative path to rediscover the world.
◎ Media Recommendations
Nick Sousanis’s "Unflattening" is a complex, beautiful, and mind-bending meditation on everything under the sun, a unique and enlightening masterpiece.
—Scott McCloud, author of "Understanding Comics" and "The Sculptor"
Sousanis makes profound contributions to comics studies, semiotics, epistemology, and the emerging study of visual thinking. It's a must-read for anyone attempting to create, critique, or contemplate visual narrative forms.
—"Publishers Weekly"
"Unflattening" is rich, ingeniously conceived, far-reaching, and difficult to summarize. It frees itself from the conventional format of comics, teaching people to read this black-and-white art comic in an unconventional and innovative way. "Unflattening" should be required reading in schools.
—"New Statesman"
Sousanis’s "Unflattening" is a work of genius, a philosophical masterpiece written in comics form. For Sousanis, "flatness" is not the abstract quality of modern art so admired by Clement Greenberg, but the tragic plight of Edwin Abbott’s "Flatland" residents: unable to comprehend the existence of other dimensions beyond those perceptible. Sousanis’s proposed solution is to incorporate visual elements, especially drawing, into language-dominated intellect.
—"The New York Times"
◎ Awards and Honors
2015:
Print Magazine's Best Design Book of the Year
Panels' Most Popular Comic of the Year
The New York Observer's "Top Ten Innovative Books"
The Independent's Graphic Novel of the Year
Forbes' Graphic Novel of the Year
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
2016:
Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for 2015
PROSE Award for Media & Cultural Studies
PROSE Award for Humanities
2017: Troféu HQMIX Award (Brazil)

2018-11-01

北京联合出版公司

the new wave

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9787559619433