External Endorsement
“Elijah Morgan has developed an original and credible analytical framework for thinking about networked violence and information failure in digital environments. His work is serious, rigorous, and highly relevant to criminological efforts to understand emerging forms of technologically mediated harm.” — M Jenny Edwards, Criminologist
2026/04/09 Information, control, and failure in networked systems
The research program examines information failure, networked violence, andsystemic risk through systems-level questions of feedback, control, coupling, constraint, and instability in digital environments.
Premise: networked systems fail for identifiable reasons. These failures arise from interactions among incentives, information asymmetries, propagation dynamics, governance breakdown, and the physical limits governing computation, bandwidth, and energy dissipation in distributed architectures.
This work is engineering-first in orientation. It draws from complex systems, information theory, control theory, optimization dynamics, and failure-mode analysis. The objective is structural clarity translated as definitions, tests, and formal descriptions capable of identifying when a system shifts from evidentiary function toward throughput preservation, distortion, coercion, or escalation.
Current outputs focus on information failure in networked violence, adversarial propagation under high-entropy conditions, audit suppression and chronology breakdown, signal retention at the expense of repair, and stability and instability in large-scale socio-technical systems.
Outputs are developed through texts, formal notes, mathematical fragments, and book-length structures. Detailed derivations, novel formulations, and implementation-level mathematics are published separately in versioned repositories or formal releases.
The site functions as a public research log. It defines domains, states methodological positions, and routes readers to formal outputs, publication notices, and archival releases. Speculative discourse is excluded.
Current program hubs
Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence
Formal Notes / Codeberg
Publications / Zenodo
Print Editions