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Turin - Teatro Carignano 1 April 2017 - 3.30 pm Participants: Massimo Cacciari, Jacopo Jacoboni Apocalypse is a term that has become worn out to indicate the radical and rapid transformations that humanity has experienced over the course of the short century and beyond. What does the use of a term so full of theological origins, so religiously connoted, hide/reveal? If taken according to its etymology, it should be extraneous to any properly political-worldly discourse. In fact, apocalypse indicates the “great crisis” through which we exit the temporal dimension and should therefore appear to be a mere contradiction in terms. Why, then, speak of apocalypse? What characteristics of the present induce us to use this symbolic image?