The Moment of Rupture

An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced. In an instant, there is no duration: it is an interruption that happens in the blink of an eye. For the ancient Greeks, kairos , the time in which exceptional, unrepeatable events occurred, was opposed to chronos , measurable, quantitative, and uniform time. In The Moment of Rupture , Humberto Beck argues that during the years of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of fascism in Germany, the notio