Editors

Peter Thasselcroft

Peter Thasselcroft writes about systems as they appear in ordinary life.

His work focuses on the small, repeatable structures through which people and organisations interact: transactions, responses, permissions, refusals.

Rather than approaching these as abstract problems, he observes them at the point of use—where a request is made, a reply is given, and something shifts, often without being named.

He has worked across publishing, technology, and communication, including as a consulting editor in digital production and information systems.

His background informs the attention to language, structure, and function that runs through his writing, but the essays themselves are not technical. They are concerned with what happens in practice.

Anita Anatroccolo

Anita Anatroccolo studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam, where she encountered the existential tradition early and found it more congenial than the clinical frameworks that dominated the curriculum. She was less interested in diagnosis than in the conditions under which people understood or misunderstood their own experience.

She completed a second degree in information systems—an unusual combination in the early 1980s, when the two disciplines had almost no overlap—motivated by a conviction that the way systems handle people is as revealing as the way people handle systems.

She developed the habit of precise observation—the attention to the gap between the stated purpose and the operational reality, the interest in what a system’s behaviour reveals about what it is actually optimised for.

She has lived in Sydney since 1994, where she has taught writing and critical thinking at several institutions without finding institutional life particularly congenial. She has left it.

 

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