The Digital Desires Inbox, Volume 1: Taken by the Tetris Blocks, Conquered by Clippy, Invaded by the iWatch

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Church leaders are called to reecho this plea from the heavens: Listen! Listen! Listen until it hurts! Give Christ your life-attention, not in tweet-by-tweet scattered glances. Focus on him in sustained discipline as if your life depends on it, as if you will drift away if you lose sight of this North Star. By divine design, Christians are pro-spectacle. We give our entire lives to this greatest Spectacle. But it is a spectacle for the ear, and that’s where the greatest tension arises in our age of competing spectacles. I’m trying to be the star I was envisioning, or the girl I needed, when I was young.”—Isabella Lovestory

Biz: You have both been photographed by Richard Kern, who’s well known for his explorations of female eroticism. This conversation is happening at an interesting time, especially in relation to his work, because we’re living in an unprecedented era in terms of image-making, the female erotic, and ownership of those images. A great example of this is the massive success and impact of OnlyFans, which speaks to a shift in who owns the means of production and distribution for images that activate desire. What does desire look like in this accelerated hyper-digital world? Any of those drastic actions might help me. But my ultimate hope rests in a Spectacle, the most satisfying Spectacle of the universe — Jesus Christ — a spectacle for the ear now, and for the eye later. Hebrews 1 is one of my favorite portraits of Christ, in the glory of his atoning sacrifice for sinners. Hebrews 1 ranks up there with Colossians 1 in offering us a Spectacle of the supremacy and majesty of God’s Son. In fact, Hebrews 1 is so compelling that it calls for urgent application. And so, we return again to Hebrews 2:1:brunettes blondes women beach high heels digital desire magazine sunny leone 2000 Nature Beaches HD Art Isabella: That’s a big problem in Honduras. It’s like you either die or you kill yourself if you’re queer. So, what can we do? How do we respond? Here are four practical steps. 1. Be honest with our own susceptibilities to the world’s spectacles.

Like Grey, Lovestory understands the modality of desire—the many different shapes it takes, how gritty and dark it can get, and how funny it can all seem after the moment’s passed. “Love can be nasty and violent, it’s not always a sugary fairytale,” says Lovestory of the passionate stories behind her songs. “Sex is liberating and the most primal creative expression, but this same feeling can be found in other sides of life, not everything sexy is about sex.” Recently, Lovestory was shot by Richard Kern, the legendary downtown New York photographer known for his transgressive portraits of unvarnished female sexuality and an early collaborator of Grey’s. brunettes women models digital desire magazine elizabeth marxs 3000x2000 People Models Female HD Art Both Russia and North Korea, long-standing allies, are subject to international sanctions, with Moscow facing sanctions due to its invasion of Ukraine and Pyongyang for its nuclear weapons testing.

Biz: I think focusing on that opposes the atomization and alienation that social media does to us all. brunettes women models people digital desire magazine claire sanders 2560x1600 People Models Female HD Art A digital detox is a withdraw from the power-currency system; it’s a fast. And fasting is how Christians say, “Food is not my god. Food is not my comfort. Food is not the basis of my happiness; God is.” We use food rightly when God is at the center of our lives, not food. In a consumer-driven age of abundance, you can imagine how fasting becomes even more urgent.

The school is located adjacent to the Dhirubhai Ambani International School (DAIS) campus at the Bandra-Kurla Complex, and has been conceptualized and designed as a state-of-the-art campus, with flexible learning spaces, provision for students to collaborate and work in small or large groups The porn legend and reggaeton pop princess on sexuality, art in the attention economy, and making their Catholic guilt work for them The porn industry wants your lust. YouTubers will give you new spectacles in exchange for your views and your likes. Netflix flat-out wants our most precious commodity: our time — deliberately and intentionally trying to intrude on our sleep patterns to extract even more time from us. Politicians want our votes. The gaming industry wants our money. And so, from each of them comes a vast array of eye-grabbing spectacles, each demanding something from us. Listening here means a lot more than casually tuning in for a moment or two before we switch off again. It means real listening, intense listening, listening which hurts. It means attentive straining after what is said, giving ourselves wholly to the task of attention to Jesus. Why? Because he is God’s Word, he is what God says to us. ( Confronted by Grace: Meditations of a Theologian, 96)So here we are, celebrating the centrality of the word, celebrating the ear, in the golden age of image — in the age of the eye. It’s been called “the age of spectacles.” Fitting. A drift away from what we have heard with our ears — in the form of a nautical metaphor. It tells us the importance of holding a ship’s course toward a fixed point, to avoid being pulled off course and drifting away. Isabella: Taking someone’s image, copying someone, or selling their images, is inescapable in this culture. There are [right] ways to do it and there are immoral ways to do it. Even right now, there are big celebrities going on OnlyFans…