Post‑Web Governance Theory and Epistemicide Diagnostics

Post‑Web Governance Theory and Epistemicide Diagnostics formalizes two foundational primitives within the SignalRupture canon. Post‑web governance theory maps the institutional, infrastructural, and epistemic conditions that emerge after the collapse of the legacy web’s organizing principles, where platforms function as institutions, algorithms act as procedures, velocity replaces deliberation, and access becomes the primary vector of authority. Epistemicide diagnostics extends de Sousa Santos’ concept of epistemicide into the digital and post‑web domain, offering a structured method for identifying the destruction of knowledge systems through access failure, custodial collapse, provenance disruption, algorithmic suppression, and documentary harm. Together, these frameworks provide a diagnostic architecture for analyzing institutional strain, archival instability, and the emergence of custodial burden in high‑velocity governance environments.