{"product_id":"augmented-life-and-death-as-a-cyborg-9780262051118","title":"Augmented: Life and Death as a Cyborg","description":"\u003cb\u003eA provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are all cyborgs, relying on technology--whether it's Alexa, a pacemaker, or a titanium knee--for our quotidian existence. In our deep connection to a technological world, from robots to augmented and virtual realities, metaverses, and gaming, Candi Cann sees an opportunity, and good reason, to question our ideas about accessibility and inclusion. In \u003ci\u003eaugmented\u003c\/i\u003e, she asks us to reconsider traditional notions of biology and death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaving relied on hearing aids from the age of four, Cann uses her experience to challenge readers to reconsider their assumptions about technologies and their role in life--and death. She also focuses on what it means that most of us are living longer with the intervention of medical technologies, and how a better understanding of our relationship to technology will grant us greater control as we age. Drawing on her life experience in Asia, the author explains how cultural and religious views of machines and artificial intelligence vary globally--in particular, how a Western fear of machines contrasts with an animistic worldview that can see machines as conduits of care for others, embedding spiritual possibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Candi K. Cann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 5.99w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262051118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormer Fulbright Scholar, Candi K. Cann is a professor at Baylor University with a research focus on death, dying, and grief, and the intersections of marginality, diversity, and death technologies.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Candi K. Cann \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47792836739229,"sku":"9780262051118","price":42.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_3ae56db8-556d-4991-a65d-e3a632bf7fd2.jpg?v=1774982920","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/augmented-life-and-death-as-a-cyborg-9780262051118","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}