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

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Many of us know how this dynamic works from the inside. We make our own spectacles online in social media, little spectacles that we hope will grab some attention. In them we implicitly want to be celebrated, heart-ed, liked, shared, retweeted. We are hoping for something in return. If then you have been raised with Christ [that’s the condition — an inner man that has been resurrected from the dead — if that has happened, if you are regenerated, then], seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Isabella Lovestory: Sex is everywhere, and to say otherwise is just maintaining shame about it. Aesthetically, I love eroticism and the darkness [of sexuality].

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. Well, it would be very easy at this point to retreat to a position that’s simply anti-spectacle: Trash the TV. Throw the smartphone in a lake. Sledgehammer the Xbox. Live a spectacle-free existence. And yet, that’s exactly not how God confronts our digital world.blondes women closeup digital desire magazine izolda a faces belorussian 2560x1600 Nature close-up HD Art 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: All of us face these challenges. We need to lead from within the fight that we face ourselves. The Bible says, “Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man” (Proverbs 27:20). Sheol is an open mouth, always consuming life, day and night — a mass graveyard never filled. That is our eyes. Our eyes are insatiable — always roving, never fully satisfied by anything in this world. Which means, again, our great enemy is not the seduction of our spectacle makers. Our great enemy is our own insatiable eye-lust — my own eyes, your own eyes. women closeup digital desire magazine playmates bailey rose faces hair in face Nature close-up HD Art

Food is a powerful habit, and so is our phone. Every day, we habitually turn to our phones, more often than we turn to sugar. Smartphones are a virtual candy bowl. So, a digital detox is my way of saying, “The endless spectacles of digital media available to me in my phone are not my god. The self-affirmation and acceptance I seek in social media is not the basis of my happiness; God’s acceptance of me, my union with Christ, is.” Only when our lives are re-centered on God can we learn to use our phones in an honorable way and with eternal purpose. Isabella: Rebellion was always inside of me. I was a troubled child, and I had a problem with authority in school. I wanted to do it my way. That’s always been part of my philosophy and personality, being rebellious at heart. Playing with the cross and [Christian] iconography, it’s fun to have humor with those stereotypes. A spectacle is a moment of time, of varying length, in which a collective gaze is fixed on some specific image, or video, or event. A spectacle is something that captures human attention, an instant when our eyes and brains focus and fixate on something projected at us. In an outrage society like ours, spectacles are often controversies — the latest scandal in sports, entertainment, or politics.

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Isabella: People don’t know how to really be personable or social anymore. Social media can be so fake. First of all, [people] believe everything they read, then they cancel people. It’s like they get this fake rulebook of who’s a good person and who’s a bad person. That’s [what I like about] music. It’s so accessible—everybody can heal through it and everybody can connect through it. It’s not elitist. Coming from Honduras, I feel like music is the most healing thing for communities and for people to connect to each other. This resulting ear/eye tension poses massive challenges for parents and for church leaders, pastors, worship leaders, youth leaders — anyone facing this inundation of media competing for the attention of the people we love and are trying to serve. So, how do we lead deeper into the faith those who are predominantly being led by the eye? That’s a huge challenge and my task today. Biz Sherbert: Something you two have in common is that you’re not afraid to work in extremes or beyond norms, particularly when it comes to expressions of desire. How do you see the role of sexuality in your work?

Biz: You’ve both been confronted with people being rude about the fact that you’re making music about things they don’t think a woman should make music about.Social media and gaming and Netflix binging — the whole spectacle age is all built on one lie: If you give more of your life to your screens, you will become more satisfied. And that’s a false promise. It will never deliver. brunettes women models digital desire magazine elizabeth marxs 3000x2000 People Models Female HD Art

The porn legend and reggaeton pop princess on sexuality, art in the attention economy, and making their Catholic guilt work for themBiz: I think focusing on that opposes the atomization and alienation that social media does to us all. blondes women models short hair digital desire magazine faces hayden hawkens 1920x1200 People Short hair HD Art Isabella: With the internet, it’s so hard to own everything you put out. You’re always going to get misinterpreted and misused.

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