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Praxis

A Media Diet Regimen for the Metacrisis Age

Lessons from a Ten Year Research Journey into the Heart of the Mediasphere

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May 19, 2026
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In my previous pieces on movie medicine, I shared how I use specific films as healing agents during the metacrisis1— pop action movies for stress transfiguration, feel-good films for nervous system restoration, and more. But movie medicine is only part of my media practice. Another important part is something I’ve come to think of as a strict media diet regimen—a set of disciplines I’ve developed for consciously navigating what I call the mediasphere polarization field.

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