FAST YOUR EYES
A challenge, and an invitation.
Zine 6 is finished. You should have it in your mailbox if you’re a subscriber, and you’ll have it in your inbox soon.
Yesterday, I was directed towards my bookshelf and in particular, Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage. Today, my favorite YouTube channel released a video, “Fasting (of the) Eyes”. Okay, I get the message.
This August I will be taking a media fast. Not a social media fast. A _media_ fast. No YouTube. No Twitter, no forums. Discord on Sundays. Things that are “direct messaging” are permissible. Email is fine.
But no listening to music, no videos, no podcasts, nuh-uh. I have a lot to work on in August, just need to shut up and execute.
I encourage you to try something similar. Maybe be more hardcore than me and ditch the phone. I’ve done this sort of thing in the past - full dumbphoning it even. Different stages and periods of life demand different things though. Don’t make excuses though. Do what is truly best.
Hey, this sounds like a great zine topic. So that’s the next zine title:
(Instead of feasting your eyes, get it? ha…)
If you have content you’d like to submit - poetry, an essay, a quote, art, whatever - join the discord and post it there, or write to mail@machinaeexdeo.com . I love to include content from more than just myself. It doesn’t have to be directly topical, but anything about media, about feasting, about fasting, the intersection thereof, that’s the focus.
Thank you for everything,
-Thad
I get to work in a place forgoes their phone, the internet, and digital all day, and it really makes a difference in the society of my workplace. People CANNOT ignore each other. There are more frequent interpersonal clashes, but they are well worth the deep conversations, productive pastimes, and memorable moments