Enlightenment to Romanticism, Cybernetics to Complexity
The shift in the source of light
The Enlightenment gave us light as an external thing. Reason was a lamp held up to a world laid out before us, a mechanism to be observed, decoded, and steered. The knower stood apart from the known. Kant’s motto for the whole age was Sapere aude, dare to know, and his definition of Enlightenment was “the …
