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Nature at its best! #portugal #garden #citygarden #lights #newyear #2017 #nature #green #white #trees #globe

#garden #portugal #nature #globe #trees #lights #green #newyear #2017 #citygarden #white

This year's Comic Con's memorabillia. What a beauty this is, a real size replica of Link's Master Sword. ❤️ #comicconportugal #smashbrosportugal #legendofzelda #link #mastersword #replica

#comicconportugal #replica #link #legendofzelda #smashbrosportugal #mastersword

We meet again, Stadium of Light. #Benfica #2016 #LigaNOS #Estadiodaluz #vermelho #red #stadiumoflight #happy

#stadiumoflight #happy #liganos #estadiodaluz #2016 #vermelho #red #benfica

So they told. #portugal #design #graphicdesign #typography #graphic #coffee #idea #goodidea #drink

#coffee #graphic #portugal #drink #typography #idea #design #goodidea #graphicdesign

Impressionante como as Marchas Populares aqui arrastam a multidão para a rua aqui nesta pacata cidade, uma vez por ano. Nunca um lugar para sentar, há até quem venha para cá com 1 hora de antecedência para guardar lugar! #portugal #serradaestrela #seia #saojoao #marchaspopulares #marchas #summer

#summer #portugal #seia #saojoao #marchaspopulares #marchas #serradaestrela

Ora bem, um cartaz tipográfico numa Estação de Serviço, that's something I wasn't expecting! #poster #cartaz #design #typography #blackandwhite #black #white #graphicdesign #letter #typeface #portugal #gasstation

#cartaz #gasstation #portugal #blackandwhite #poster #typeface #typography #black #letter #design #white #graphicdesign

Suddenly, rainbows! #rain #sun #rainbow #day #colors #nature #sky #cloudy #clouds

#rainbow #clouds #nature #sun #sky #rain #colors #cloudy #day

Hello again, Covilhã. ❤️ #portugal #covilhã #city #covilhãcidadeneve #view #vista #paisagem #cidade #landscape #serradaestrela #serra #mountains

#city #vista #serra #portugal #covilhãcidadeneve #cidade #covilhã #mountains #serradaestrela #paisagem #landscape #view

Best Squidmas ever thanks to the best Father Squidmas! I can be a Kid and a Squid!~ ❤️ #splatoon #wiiu #nintendo #christmas #squidmas #gift #boyfriend #amiibo #inkling #inklingsquid #bundle

#gift #squidmas #splatoon #bundle #amiibo #wiiu #nintendo #inklingsquid #inkling #christmas #boyfriend

Now I can officially say, I won a Doubles Super Smash Bros. for WiiU with the best partner I can ever have for this! A huge thank you to my bf for believing in me, teamwork always pays off in the end! ^_^ ❤️ Also congratulations to our opponents, we could never ask such fearce opponents like we did! You're the best :D #comiccon #portugal #comicconportugal #sbpt #smashbrosportugal #wiiu #tournament #amiibo #friends #happy #bf

#bf #comicconportugal #portugal #tournament #amiibo #sbpt #wiiu #comiccon #smashbrosportugal #friends #happy

Christmas has arrived! #christmas #lights #tree #christmastree #almada #almadaforum #shopping #night

#shopping #tree #lights #almada #almadaforum #night #christmastree #christmas

Lisbon in the morning ^-^ What a beautiful view from the other side of River Tejo 💕 #lisboa #lisbon #tejo #portugal #sightseeing #boat #morning #goodmorning #view #wonderful

#portugal #tejo #morning #wonderful #goodmorning #lisbon #lisboa #view #boat #sightseeing

Lisboa Games Week, I'm here! ❤️ #smashbros #smashbroswiiu #smashbros3ds #nintendo #lgw #lisboagamesweek #lisboasmashweekend #lisboa #FIL

#smashbroswiiu #smashbros3ds #smashbros #lisboagamesweek #nintendo #lisboa #lisboasmashweekend #lgw #fil

Just illuminati things 😝 Strange but curious things happening while travelling at night #1 #11111 #illuminati #night #travel #halloween #justhalloweenthings #car #clock #digital #radio

#clock #11111 #car #travel #digital #halloween #1 #illuminati #radio #night #justhalloweenthings

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Doctoral dissertation in graphic novel form

Columbia University awarded a doctorate in education to Nick Sousanis for Unflattening, a graphic novel about the relationship between words and pictures in literature.

It was published by Harvard University Press and got a starred review in Publishers Weekly the journal Comics Grid wrote that it demonstrated “the viability of a comic book as doctoral scholarship in its own right, rather than a separate work requiring some accompanying critical paratext.”

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. – Unflattening is available from Harvard University Press.

Unflattening [Nick Sousanis/Harvard University Press]

Excerpt [PDF]

Unflattening [Nick Sousanis/Spin Weave Cut]