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machine
The issued body: robots, units, suits, instruments. The machine is what happens when someone else engineers your transcendence — Unit-01 lunges because Shinji is told to.
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Sources and references beyond the archive. External artworks are flagged and credited.
- Torso in Metal from 'The Rock Drill' Jacob Epstein, 1913–15, Tate
Built as virility on a machine, then truncated after the war — the issued body coming home wounded.
↳ in the archive: Xman Dies, Evangelion
- Maschinenmensch (Metropolis) Fritz Lang / Walter Schulze-Mittendorff, 1927
The engineered stand-in: someone else's transcendence issued as a body.
external source Maschinenmensch (Metropolis) — Fritz Lang / Walter Schulze-Mittendorff, 1927 ↳ in the archive: Evangelion
