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01The visual detourThe internet from about 1990 to 2022 as a fifty-year swing back toward print — screens of text and keyboards — inside the longer return to speech that McLuhan predicted, now ending as voice interfaces take over.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending10 Oct
02NarcocrasisIn drug dependence, the part a person stops noticing is not the drug but their own shifted baseline: flatter pleasures, a restless body, a raised stress tone. The drug feels like the fix; the changed baseline feels like how the world is.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct
03AnacrasisRecovery as re-setting that baseline, not only removing the drug. The ancient Greek word anakrasis meant mixing with others, and the evidence points the same way: what helps the reset last is other people.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct
04PharmakrasisEvery class of drug sets its own characteristic balance of the senses: cannabis speeds felt time, ketamine loosens the sense of owning a body, LSD deepens the response to music. A drug, on this view, is a technology of the senses, like a medium but more direct.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct
05HeterocrasisPeople start from different balances of the senses before any medium touches them. ADHD may be one such starting point, most clearly in how loudly the brain turns all its signals up or down.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct
06ExocrasisPart of how we sense and remember now lives outside the body, in keyboards, search, saved files and the network. The computing environment holds some of the balance the brain used to hold.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct
07Sensory syncrasisThe whole configuration of how the brain blends its senses: how much it trusts each one, how loud it turns them all, whether it fuses or separates them, the balance between body and world, and how long a setting lasts. From the Greek root of idiosyncrasy.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending4 Oct
08TypomoraThe typed delay in McLuhan's predicted return to voice: fifty years in which the keyboard, not the medium, kept networked communication typographic. Typos, type, and mora, delay — also the unit of spoken time.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending4 Oct
09EpanaphonyThe return of voice as the way we put language into machines — dictation, voice notes, talking to AI — that closes the typomora. Oral in production, typographic in storage.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending4 Oct