Unflattening

Summary

A doctoral dissertation written and drawn entirely as comics, among the first to be published in that form. Nick Sousanis argues against ‘flatness’, the narrow, fixed viewpoint that limits what we can perceive, and uses the page itself, with words and images side by side, to show knowing as an active process of holding many vantage points together.

Rationale

Sousanis would recognise how Part 2’s framework came about: “the complexity of the terrain had us gravitate towards shapes, layers, and colours”. For him that is thinking, not decoration.