Human and Machine
Dario D’AprileHuman & Machine studies how judgement fails under complexity, when systems begin to decide while people still believe they are in control.
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Straight talk and the theatre of damage
Martin Parr
A leader opens a meeting by saying they want to be very clear. The phrase arrives before the content does, carrying its own small authority. The room orients; notebooks stop moving; the person who was about to raise a concern a...
The cost of smooth misunderstanding
Luigi Ghirri in Bologna, 1973
In close interactions what is commonly described as understanding does not function as a neutral act of recognition. It operates as a way of regulating the exchange. What is expressed does not remain in its or...
The quiet erosion of agency
Ramsgate, Kent, Martin Parr
In organisations that rely on simulation systems decisions increasingly arrive already shaped; by the time a senior figure is asked to choose scenarios have been modelled ranked and stress-tested. One path carri...
The reassuring mammal
Martin Parr
There is a quiet fact circulating inside organisations that rarely gets named directly: generative AI (especially large language models) tends to work best when it is not asked to decide anything. Not when it has to close an is...
Il mammifero rassicurante (Italian essay)
Note for English readers: This week’s essay explores a pattern I see often in organisations: leadership reduced to emotional reassurance. I’m publishing it first in Italian, where the concept is sharper. An English version will come later....
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I work with people making difficult decisions under pressure. I write about how judgement distorts inside complex systems at Human & Machine and make objects at Studioaprile.
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