CONFLUENCES · EDITORIAL FIELD NOTES
Ideas meet worlds.
Short essays on origins, science, culture, technology and the unexpected connections behind our projects. No publishing schedule — only ideas worth opening.
Why Confluence of Minds?
An Indian poet and a Scottish polymath exchanged ideas about education, ecology and how knowledge should meet the world. A century later, their conversation still feels strangely current.
Read the essay →AI-generated books before ChatGPT
In 2016, Authentiques Victimes imagined kiosks producing books on demand from profiles, keywords and styles. The strange part is not that the idea came true. It is what happened to the idea of an author.
Read the essay →Can a movie exist without images?
Take the image away from a film and something surprising happens: the scene does not necessarily disappear. Sometimes it moves into the listener’s head.
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