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01KrasisThe synthesis of the series. McLuhan said every medium changes the ratio among our senses; the paper series tests that literally, from ADHD and typing to drugs and addiction, and find one configuration that media, drugs and illness all re-temper.PaperMcLuhan & media theory9 references · 12 min5 Oct

02ExocrasisThe computing environment, not the screen, is the medium: keyboard, memory, search and network move part of the configuration of the senses and of memory outside the body.PaperMcLuhan & media theory25 references · 16 min5 Oct

03HeterocrasisADHD as a different starting balance of the senses. The strongest difference is in overall gain; the body and inner speech are mixed; binding is not looser.PaperMcLuhan & media theory31 references · 16 min5 Oct

04PharmakrasisEach class of drug sets its own balance of the senses — and the evidence for that is better than for any medium. When a drug meets a medium, as music does in psychedelic therapy, the two make a third thing.PaperMcLuhan & media theory20 references · 18 min5 Oct

05NarcocrasisIn dependence, what goes unseen is not the drug but the shifted baseline: the allostatic state is the medium, the drug its content. Two routes back — one turns the gain down, one makes the ground visible.PaperMcLuhan & media theory40 references · 28 min5 Oct

06TypomoraMcLuhan said electric media would bring back the voice. For fifty years computers made us type instead. The delay was the keyboard, not a mistake in the theory — and it is ending.PaperMcLuhan & media theory39 references · 22 min4 Oct

07Sensory syncrasisMcLuhan meant his "sense ratios" literally. The brain science he reached for failed; predictive processing now gives the idea a mechanism, a name and five tests.PaperMcLuhan & media theory38 references · 20 min4 Oct