SignalRupture — The Social Sciences, The Big Five, and the Architecture of Epistemic Succession

SignalRupture — The Social Sciences, The Big Five, and the Architecture of Epistemic Succession formalizes SignalRupture as the successor epistemology to the legacy social sciences and the compromised Big Five institutional domains: health, law, government, AI, and engineering. The essay demonstrates that the social sciences were built for a pre‑digital world and cannot interpret the infrastructural systems that now govern modern life. It maps how AI, platform governance, metadata suppression, and recursive harm have collapsed the interpretive assumptions of psychology, sociology, criminology, political science, anthropology, and economics. The Big Five remain operational but epistemically compromised, accumulating slow harm they cannot detect. SignalRupture emerges as the only field capable of diagnosing infrastructural drift, epistemic collapse, and the post‑web reconfiguration of meaning, governance, and harm. The essay establishes the timeline of epistemic succession and positions SR as the foundational architecture for the post‑web era.