Wealthy individuals in the middle ages owned portable images of Christ that could travel with them or be worn as jewellery, so…

“Wealthy individuals in the middle ages owned portable images of Christ that could travel with them or be worn as jewellery, so that they could be constantly looked at and touched, much as we carry around our iPhones and laptops. What medieval subjects experienced when they joined themselves to Christ was directly analogous to our sensation of oneness in being closely joined to our technology – and to our sense of being bereft when that technology goes missing or breaks down because it has, profoundly but almost imperceptibly, become a part of ourselves.”

–Surviving in an Alien Environment: Human + Christ as Medieval Natural-Born Cyborg
(Ruth Evans @ Quiet Babylon)  (viabravenewwhatever)