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Modernity conceived of progress on the basis of a paradigm of flat Euclidian space, while the uncertainty of our times is linked to the inadaptation of this topology to the complexity of a new space-time closed on itself but innerly open, for example, through ecological considerations. Hence, there is a dual relation of closed and open. This duality leads us to conceive of complexity on the basis of edges, margins, otherness, in this case, of the very poor. Their being in the world suggests a prophetic way of moving through the Apocalypse: between the time of urgency and that of political projects, there is a way of living, not in the anxiety of the end of time, but in the trust that there is ‘a presence of the end in this time to live’.