The SignalRupture Architecture: A Unified Model of Structural Perception, Fragmentation, Extraction, and Depletion

The SignalRupture Architecture presents the first unified structural model of how contemporary systems generate misperception, fragmentation, harm, extraction, and depletion. Rather than treating these as isolated failures—epistemic, social, administrative, or psychological—the paper demonstrates that they are sequential outputs of a single architectural constraint: systems cannot perceive the structures that produce their own perception. This blindness forces reliance on abstraction and categories; fragmentation removes relational grounding; category amplification produces structural harm; and systems, unable to detect the harm they generate, continue extracting from human subjects until capacity erodes. The paper formalizes this entire sequence as a coherent causal chain culminating in system‑induced depletion and the necessity of System‑Induced Depletion Leave (SIDL) as a governance‑layer correction. It reframes exhaustion, misclassification, and social instability not as moral or managerial failures but as predictable outcomes of systems operating beyond their design envelope. By integrating perception limits, social structure, governance behavior, and human capacity into a single architecture, this work establishes the structural foundation of the SignalRupture field.