augmented
life and death as a cyborg
$49.71
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2026
Summary
A provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life.
We 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 augmented, she asks us to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262051118 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262051117 |
| Author: | Candi K. Cann |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Included in Publishers Weekly’s Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview
“A thought-provoking study…offers intriguing fodder for debate.”
—Publishers Weekly
ENDORSEMENTS
“A brilliant, compassionate, and provocative reframing of what it means to be human in a tech-entwined world—augmented urgently calls us to protect what matters most: care, connection, and meaning.”
—Shoshana Ungerleider, Host and Producer, TED Health; Founder, End Well
“Insightful, powerful, essential. Through a dialog between personal experience, spirituality, and science, Candi Cann brings a new understanding of how technological augmentations will impact life and death. A needed text for anyone interested in the future of mankind.”
—Matthieu J. Guitton, Editor-in-Chief of Computers in Human Behavior and Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans
“Candi Cann’s book brings together three very important and often neglected intersecting topics: death, disability, and technology. Exactly the death studies scholar we need to help us understand what it means to grieve today.”
—John Troyer, author of Technologies of the Human Corpse
“Candi Cann urges reflection on how we are, in effect, cyborgs and calls for building a more inclusive, compassionate community.”
—Gil-Soo Han, author of Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea
Candi K. Cann
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. She is a former Fulbright Scholar.
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