ABSTRACT The sense of kairos is of time as having an event-like character. Fundamental here is a split between quantitative time and a qualitatively distinct moment. The decisive moment connects the kairological to crisis. By exploring the accounts of kairos in three contemporaries responding to the sense of crisis in 1920s Germany—Benjamin, Heidegger, and Tillich—this article shows the manner in action in the kairos can be understood as both responsive and non-opportunist. Themes such as the “tiger leap” (Benjamin), the “moment (...) of vision” (Heidegger), and the “shuddering” of time (Tillich) are analyzed to demonstrate how these accounts taken in dialogue with one another give an understanding of kairos, as a displacement and disruption of time as chronos and not simply as an interruption in chronological time. Such a disruption of chronological time is a necessary condition for responsible action, giving a measure also for the present. (shrink)

Avtor v članku nadaljuje razpravo o transformaciji pojma krize od cikličnega k nepovratnemu, in sicer v smeri Jamesonovega branja Arrighijeve teorije krize znotraj sistemskih ciklov akumulacije. V tem kontekstu znova pokaže, da finančna in dolžniška kriza, ki se je začela leta 2008, označujeta mejo cikličnega ponavljanja krize, saj zaradi različnih vzrokov nov produktivni cikel akumulacije kapitala ni mogoč. Na tej točki avtor uvede nov koncept, imenovan postproduktivni kapitalizem, s katerim poskuša konceptualizirati natanko razliko današnje krize glede na krize v preteklih (...) zgodovinskih obdobjih. Na tej osnovi članek nadalje pokaže razliko med antičnim, modernim in postmodernim pojavom krize, pri čemer vsakemu od treh pripiše ustrezajočo časovnost. V sklepnem delu pa članek te nastavke poveže še z Benjaminovo-Agambenovo teorijo izrednega stanja in pokaže, kateri tip izrednega stanja ustreza današnji postmoderni obliki krize. (shrink)