“He suddenly turns on her, devours her, bringing down the whole system.” — Catherine Keller & — the perennial production of the cause of its downfall from the conditions which produced the state form

who does? the violent man-emperor who is? that for whom the merchants weep . . . in the porno of the human condition, the market where it is traded as commodity . . . John lists 29 luxury products of Roman world trade from gold, wine, olive oil — to slaves. If the beast signifies imperialist politics,
Simon Taylor