“Elijah Morgan has developed an original and credible analytical framework for thinking about networked violence… His work is serious, rigorous, and highly relevant to criminological efforts to understand emerging forms of technologically mediated harm.” M Jenny Edwards, Criminologist
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Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence (Elijah Morgan, 2026).
Deals with criminology, neuroscience and conditioning, control theoretics, system information failure modes and sadistic online networks. Second-order cybernetics and Information Thermodynamics lens.
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Desire Without Ethics (Elijah Morgan, 2026).
A companion piece to ‘Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence’.
More of a political philosophy and political theory lens on the same material: sadism, systemic alienation and saturated plateaus.
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Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence
This work concerns control theory and networked violence. Canonical repo is https://codeberg.org/playdarkly. ORCID is https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8020-8566. https://playdarkly.com also functions as a public research log.
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