Christ and Code – The Mystery of Salvation in the Digital World – Chapter One: The Burdened Body
Christ and Code: The Mystery of Salvation in the Digital World I. Chapter One: The Burdened Body 1. The Body as a Market Object Traditionally, the body of Christ in Christian liturgy is sacramentum—a visible sign of invisible grace.But in the triptych under examination, the body has become a corpus alienatum (“alienated body”): it no longer belongs to the subject but to the market. The neon light and the inscription…