![]() ![]() But, as Sousanis argues in his book, language isn’t the only system for conveying information, for expressing oneself, and for making an academic argument.įrom the start-on the cover and in the opening pages-feet/footprints/tracks are a dominant theme. Of course, I’m using words and highlighting one of the author’s key blocks of text here, but such is the propositionality of language to enable us to reference and make claims about the world. The stated goal of the work is “to discover new ways of seeing, to open spaces for possibilities, and to find ‘fresh methods’ for animating and awakening” (27). Done entirely as comics (the author’s preferred term), the work is said to be the first graphic dissertation and a work that presents new possibilities for words-and-images in academic realms. ![]() Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening started its life as the author’s doctoral dissertation from Columbia University’s Teachers College. BOOK REVIEW by Professor Carol HendricksonĬambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015 ![]()
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