num_pages: 160
description: Thirty years after Neil Postmans Amusing Ourselves to Death  this book takes the impact-analysis of modern media to a new level.  John Piper Founder and Teacher desiringGod.org What images should I feed my eyes? We often leave this question unanswered because we dont ask it. Maybe we dont want to ask it. But viral videos digital images and other spectacles surround us in every directioncompeting for our time our attention our lust and our money. So we let our lazy eyes feed on whatever comes our way. As a result we never stop to consider the consequences of our visual diet on our habits desires and longings. Journalist Tony Reinke asked these hard questions himselfcritiquing his own habitsand now invites us along to see what he discovered as he investigated the possibilities and the pitfalls of our image-centered world. In the end he shares the beauty of a Greater Spectaclecapable of centering our souls filling our hearts and stabilizing our gaze in this age of the digital spectacle.
language: English
title: Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age
publisher: Crossway