Cybernetics, Criminology, and Systems Ethics
Applying cybernetic and control-theoretic tools to failure modes in networked harm and systems that offload their costs.
Elijah Morgan
Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence
“The purpose of this text is narrow and exacting. It does not argue for better values. It does not propose reform programs. It does not promise resolution. It collapses attribution ambiguity to the point where the system must either internalize cost or openly refuse to do so.
Once that line is crossed, there is no neutral position left. The system can continue to function only by admitting that it is actively selecting for harm under conditions of preserved deniability.”
2026/04/15 PDF ‘Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence’ 10.5281/zenodo.19599230 https://zenodo.org/records/19599231 Networked Violence,
Zoosadism, Nihilistic Violent Extremism, Evidence Laundering, Audit Failure, Chronology Loss, Systemic Risk, Platform Governance
2026/03/26 Print copies now available of: Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence, which is the core first text in an ongoing engineering research program. 1st edition (2026), Play Darkly Imprint. Systems/Platform Design, Criminology, Harm Propagation Analysis
Elijah Morgan
Canonical Notes, Working Papers
“Information is inevitably tied to a physical representation and therefore to restrictions and possibilities related to the laws of physics.” — Rolf Landauer, The Physical Nature of Information (1996).
2026/04/06 Play Darkly. (2026). A control-theoretic note on harmful engagement systems. Codeberg. Regulatory Cost Offloading
2026/04/06 Play Darkly. (2026). The Network Does Not Need Infiltrators Codeberg. Friction Exclusion in Contamination-Tolerant Advocacy Networks
2026/03/26 Play Darkly. (2026). Friction Exclusion in Contamination-Tolerant Advocacy Networks. Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/ifmnv-notes/src/branch/main/lemma-friction-exclusion.md
2026/03/26 Print copies now available of: Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence, which documents an ongoing engineering research program focused on failure-mode analysis in networked systems. 1st edition (2026), Play Darkly Imprint. Systems/Platform Design, Criminology, Harm Propagation Analysis
2026/03/25 Forbidden Regions and Error-Inducing Inputs in Networked Systems Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/error-inducing-input-classes
2026/02/16 Play Darkly. (2026). Structural Coupling as a Stability Condition in Gradient-Optimized Systems (Version 0.1). Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/structural-coupling-stability/src/branch/main/docs/tofs-v0.1.m https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/structural-coupling-stability
2026/02/11 Play Darkly. (2026). Boundary-Coupled Selection in Adaptive Systems: A Minimal Formal Note (Version 0.1). Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/boundary-coupled-selection
Play Darkly is a lab and imprint presenting research and producing prototypes. Elijah Morgan IFMNV https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19599230
Engage systems where pressure is real, constraints matter, and consequences cannot be deflected.
