malfuncionri
Malfuncionri is a neologism used in speculative and critical design discourse to describe a class of system-wide malfunctions that arise in highly interconnected environments, where a fault in one component can propagate to others. It characterizes situations in which failures become coordinated across software, hardware, and human operators, producing disruptions that exceed the original fault’s scope. The term is not standardized and appears mainly in theoretical analyses, design fiction, and resilience studies.
Etymology and usage: The word blends malfunction with a suffix -ri, a stylistic choice found in some
Characteristics include cascading or synchronized failures, loss of isolation between subsystems, and emergent disruption of services
Detection and mitigation emphasize redundancy, network segmentation, graceful degradation, and proactive chaos engineering to reveal latent
In practice, malfuncionri is used mainly as a theoretical lens in discussions of autonomous systems, smart