Reading Susan Buck-Morss' The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, which Laleen Jayamanne recommended to me about a billion years ago.
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Silly fanboy moment: the Cuban Sentinels in this arc of Mystique (which I actually haven't read) are basically Evas from Evangelion! Brilliant! And also interesting, given that the Evangelion Evas are actually a kind of mutant human.
