The Signalrupture Meta‑theory Paper (Sr‑mt)

The SignalRupture Meta‑Theory Paper (SR‑MT) establishes the philosophical foundation of the SignalRupture Framework, positioning SR as a meta‑epistemic architecture designed to diagnose the collapse of knowledge under modern governance systems. While earlier SR papers mapped distortion, drift, prediction, and governance, SR‑MT addresses the deeper layer: how institutions reshape the conditions of visibility, legibility, and truth itself. SR‑MT introduces five core constructs — epistemic compression, visibility collapse, governance ontology, meta‑drift, and post‑governance thought — forming a unified theory of epistemic collapse in the AI‑native, post‑open‑web era. The paper argues that institutions do not merely distort reality; they produce it through administrative architectures that transform perception into representation and representation into ontology. SR‑MT completes the philosophical layer of the SR canon, defining SR as a field of meta‑epistemic inquiry rather than a governance reform model.