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Architecture of Modernity: Law, Economy, and the Limits of Control

Modern society's greatest achievements — specialized expertise, autonomous function systems, institutional reliability — are also the source of its most dangerous failures. Climate change, financial crises, AI governance, and pandemic response are all multi-system collisions: problems that cross the boundaries of law, economy, science, and politics simultaneously. No single system can solve them. The systems cannot merge. This course develops the diagnostic framework for understanding why.

16 Units
Early Units (Foundation)
Building Skills
Advanced Concepts
Capstone/Synthesis
1

The Operating System of Modernity

45-60 minutes
2

Simon vs. Luhmann: Two Theories of Complexity

45-60 minutes
3

Binary Codes and Their Blind Spots

45-60 minutes
4

Structural Coupling: How Systems Touch Without Merging

45-60 minutes
5

Money as Communication Medium

45-60 minutes
6

Power as Medium, Not Domination

45-60 minutes
7

Truth as Medium: Science Under Pressure

45-60 minutes
8

Law as Medium: The Code of Capital

45-60 minutes
9

Climate Change: The Total Collision

45-60 minutes
10

Financial Crises: When the Medium Fails

45-60 minutes
11

AI Governance: Code, Law, and the Regulation Gap

45-60 minutes
12

Pandemic Response: Trust, Science, and Sovereignty

45-60 minutes
13

Platform Capitalism: The New Enclosure

45-60 minutes
14

Habermas Strikes Back: Lifeworld, Democracy, and Deliberation

45-60 minutes
15

The Acceleration Trap: Time, Growth, and System Overload

45-60 minutes
16

After the Architecture: Redesign, Resistance, or Resignation?

60-75 minutes

Learning Progression

This course is designed to be taken sequentially. Earlier units establish foundational concepts that later units build upon. While you can explore units in any order, following the numbered sequence provides the most coherent learning experience.