The Structuralist by Wall, David

Notes on the Work ADDED BY THE NAC AT THE AUTHOR’S REQUEST. In an age shaped by automated decisions and rising AI anxiety, one truth becomes impossible to ignore: when systems fail, someone still has to show up. The Structuralist is a quiet, powerful literary novel about what remains of human responsibility in a world increasingly run by machines. When minor glitches cascade into public failures—an autonomous taxi misjudging a pedestrian, a hospital triage algorithm overlooking the vulnerable, a deepfake paralyzing a city—the cracks in modern order widen. And into these cracks step the people still willing to see, decide,…