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augmented life and death as a cyborg | 1.31 MB
Title: augmented
Author: Candi K. Cann
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Death & Dying, Disability, Science & Nature, Technology, Social Aspects
Language: English | 228 Pages | ISBN: 0262051117
Description:
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 reconsider traditional notions of biology and death.
Having 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...
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