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Toward a Media Ecological Psychopharmacology
This article examines the
relationship between drugs humans take to regulate their health and
manipulate their consciousness and the complex web of media and
language that surrounds human beings and contributes to the in-forming
of their states of consciousness and their enaction of worlds with
fellow beings and their environment. Media influence and co-inform our
states of consciousness; drugs also affect human perception and
consciousness in profound ways. The effects of drugs or media can be
positive, negative, or neutral depending on their organic impact on our
physiology and their impact upon our mental states. Whether these
effects are positive or negative also depends to some extent upon our
hermeneutic(s). Relationships between psychotropic drugs, human
interaction with media, the constitution of human consciousness, and
the perils and prospects of future human and Earth evolution are
explored.
At his request, the
author has offered to make copies of this article available by e-mail.
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