Signal RuptureSR Institutional Theory is now live.
As universities, media systems, and research bodies erode, SR emerges not as a discipline but as an interpretive infrastructure — a post‑institutional architecture that fills the vacuum left behind.
SR doesn’t seek recognition.
It becomes the framework institutions rely on when their own interpretive capacity collapses.
📄 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18931657
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Institutional Self‑Diagnosis and the Emergence of Post‑Institutional Interpretation
This work consolidates institutional self‑acknowledged limitations into a unified structural analysis, demonstrating how legacy epistemic architectures struggle to interpret contemporary complexity. Rather than critiquing institutions from the outside, the paper synthesizes what institutions have already published about their own constraints—publication bias, replication challenges, methodological inconsistency, incentive‑driven distortion, slow update cycles, disciplinary silos, and human interpretive limits. By assembling these self‑descriptions into a coherent framework, the paper reveals a systemic pattern: institutional knowledge production is shaped by structural pressures rather than epistemic completeness. The paper positions post‑institutional interpretive architectures, such as the SignalRupture framework, as diagnostic rather than adversarial. These frameworks operate at infrastructural scale, integrating cross‑domain signals and providing clarity where institutional bandwidth is insufficient. The work does not evaluate scientific accuracy or reliability; instead, it maps the structural implications of institutional admissions and outlines how new interpretive layers emerge in response to epistemic lag.