Jesus of Nazareth

In this course

Jesus appears primarily as a foundational figure whose theological framework—particularly through Augustine's reinterpretation—restructured Western conceptions of space and time away from linear measurement toward a bifurcated cosmology of heaven and hell. The readings invoke Christian scripture and Jesus's narrative as a cultural reference point shaping how we inherited and now theorize temporality and spatial organization, concepts central to understanding algorithmic and computational systems that similarly partition reality into discrete states and nonlinear temporalities. His presence is largely indirect, serving as the root of a theological episteme that the course uses to historicize contemporary technological thinking about order, sequence, and eternity.

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