''Parousia: 'the unveiling of this mystery coincides with the manifestation of the inoperativity of the law and with the essential illegitimacy of every power in messianic time. (And by all appearances this is what is happening today under our noses, when the powers of state act openly outside the law. In this sense the anomos [outlaw] does not represent anything but the unveiling of the lawlessness that today defines every constituted power within which State and terrorism form a single system.)'
-Giorgio Agamben, Mystery of Evil, pp.33-34, trns. by A. Kotsko; 2017