English editionWriting, strategy, systems

An atlas for reading the present

The present is
not self-evident.

What we accept as normal has a history. So do our desires, our institutions and the words we use to understand them.

This editorial project by Alessandro Gentili brings cultural reading and strategic thinking into the same inquiry.

Begin with a question

33 author guides 11 reading triads In English

Explore Circles of Ink Essays with English notes

01 / Ways into the work

A question changes
what comes into view.

Choose a question. See what three different thinkers bring to it, then follow a thread into the guides.

Choose your starting question

Formation / Triad 08

Who teaches us
how to belong?

A language, a story, a way of consuming: education continues long after we leave the classroom.

  1. Language & responsibility

    Manzoni

    How fear and institutional weakness put collective judgment under strain.

  2. Experience & desire

    Collodi

    How temptation, work and care become an education in the world.

  3. Culture & environment

    Pasolini

    How a consumer environment can teach without declaring itself a teacher.

Read the relation between them

Power / Triad 04

Why does authority
feel necessary?

Obedience has an inner life, a cultural setting and a promise of protection. Each asks for a different lens.

  1. The divided subject

    Freud

    How desire and internal authority exceed our conscious account of ourselves.

  2. The making of common sense

    Gramsci

    How institutions and cultural practices shape what comes to seem natural.

  3. The promise of protection

    Hobbes

    How vulnerability and fear of disorder make common authority compelling.

Read the relation between them

Judgment / Triad 09

What happens
before we choose?

Desire, other people and the framing of a problem help shape the decision we experience as our own.

  1. Desire & freedom

    Epicurus

    Which needs sustain us, and which fears make us dependent?

  2. Belief & imitation

    Tarde

    How beliefs and desires travel between people before feeling personal.

  3. Framing & uncertainty

    Kahneman

    How anchors, heuristics and reference points give a choice its shape.

Read the relation between them

These are editorial relations, not claims of historical influence. Each guide preserves the thinker’s distinct argument and context.

02 / The wider atlas

Follow a thread.
Discover a different scale.

Cerchi d’inchiostro — Circles of Ink — reads authors in relation. A guide opens one body of thought; a triad brings three perspectives to a shared question; a theme crosses between them.

03 / Essays with English notes

Where decisions are made.
Where they are felt.

The essays follow power from the institutions that exercise it to the places that live with its consequences. The full texts are in Italian. Selected essays include English editorial notes that set out the argument.

Geometric traces on a dark wall suggest the hidden architecture of power.
Macro Power and apparatuses

Il futuro degli altri

Who gets to shape the future when institutions struggle to keep pace with technological change?

Read the English note
A pin marks a place on a torn paper map.
Micro Territory and community

Le periferie del potere

What can a place at the margins tell us about the decisions made far from it?

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English notes in the Italian essay index

04 / From reading to practice

Interpretation carries
responsibility.

The same attention to context, relations and consequences informs the professional work: making a position clear, giving work a method and building systems that remain accountable.

A trajectory crosses a circular threshold on the International cover.
International A second entrance into the same project
  1. Positioning

    Know where
    you stand.

    The connection between an intellectual position and the value it can bring to a real context.

    Read Positioning
  2. Method

    Give the work
    a structure.

    How interpretation becomes a sequence of choices, checks and deliberate execution.

    Explore the Method
  3. System

    Keep judgment
    in the loop.

    How AI-supported work connects knowledge, tools and human responsibility.

    Read the System

An open conversation

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working on together?

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About this edition

English is an edited entrance into the project, with 33 author guides and eleven complete triads. The essay archive remains in Italian, with English notes on selected texts.