GRAND UNIFIED THEORY OF INFRASTRUCTURAL HARM
Abstract
A comprehensive synthesis of the SignalRupture canon, articulating a unified model of how modern infrastructures generate, distribute, and normalize harm. This essay consolidates the core frameworks of Quiet Governance, Systemic Erosion Theory, Infrastructural Exposure Theory, Slow Harm Theory, and Social Infrastructure Theory into a single explanatory architecture. It maps harm as an emergent property of design rather than failure, revealing the recursive mechanisms—scarcity, filtration, trauma, and administrative force—that govern lived experience across systems.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Urban Planning and Governance
Architecture
Modernity
and Design
Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Preprint