“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).
Elijah Morgan
I develop ways to describe, test, and eventually predict instability in architectures that preserve harm while externalizing the costs.
Currently: how information behaves under constraint, how it folds into material systems, how pressure builds, how feedback loops close, and what shapes hold without breaking.
To keep it legible, I usually place it inside a broad cybernetic field. That gives an entry point through the works of Gregory Bateson (anchors the relational field), Heinz von Foerster (anchors the observer problem), Stafford Beer (anchors viability and control), and Humberto Maturana (anchors closure and self-maintenance).
Problem-space: how systems regulate themselves, how information acquires consequence inside material constraints, and how feedback, coupling, and closure determine what a system can sustain.
In outer-circle terms, the work is legible through complex systems, cybernetics, information theory, and control. In inner-circle terms, it is a concentrated research program on information failure, networked violence, and systemic instability in digital systems.
The work itself is closer to the thermodynamic treatment of information associated with Rolf Landauer (anchors information in physical cost).
The current focus is building a control-theoretic and an information-theoretic framework for analyzing failure modes in networked violence.
My life has been shaped by repeated displacement. That pressure now informs the work directly. Non-belonging elicits a requirement for bounded systems.
Rootlessness pushed me toward principles, systems, and constraints as the only stable materials available. That is why information failure has never felt abstract to me. When records decay, when claims detach from evidence, when systems misclassify and refuse correction, the boundary starts to crumble. When the boundary crumbles, the structure holding identity together comes under pressure.
On this site, you can explore the interactive 3D systems and prototypes I am developing, or find formal notes and explainers on my research, or explore books, and papers published under the Play Darkly imprint.
I can be reached via: contact@playdarkly.com
You may want to read the Principles, FAQ, and Red Lines page first.
Canonical formal notes, lemmas, and equations are maintained on Codeberg. The repo is part of the same effort to preserve auditability and reduce distortion.