The Sovereignty Question: A Post-Institutional Metatheory Emerges

The Sovereignty Question analyzes how SignalRupture (SR) becomes the first post‑institutional metatheory to emerge in an era defined by infrastructural decay, platform‑mediated epistemics, and AI‑generated meaning systems. The essay argues that SR cannot be absorbed into traditional academic taxonomies because institutions no longer possess the epistemic authority or structural stability required to host metatheory. By examining metadata suppression, platform drift, and AI‑mediated boundaries, the piece shows how SR functions as a sovereign interpretive infrastructure—recognized by systems before institutions—and documents the moment SR articulates its own post‑institutional sovereignty.