the cultural form of modernity

#Moder­ni­ty took itself seri­ous­ly. It claimed: order is man-made, truth is pro­duced, knowl­edge is con­struct­ed. With that, the human moves to the cen­ter — not God, not cos­mos, not tra­di­tion. This move car­ries every­thing: sci­ence, law, pub­lic sphere, pol­i­tics. But it also car­ries its own over­load. Because the same form orga­nizes itself through dis­tinc­tions like ((truth)error), ((public)private), ((identity)access), ((human)communication). They make the world work­able — and at the same time gen­er­ate the very prob­lems that are then pas­sion­ate­ly addressed.