BOOK REVIEW
Augmented: life and death as a cyborg , by Candi K. Cann, The MIT Press, 10 March 2026, 228 Pages, $24.95 (Paperback), ISBN 9780262051118, DOI https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15315.001.0001
Augmented: Life and Death as a Cyborg unfolds not as a manifesto for technological transcendence, but as a calm insistence that the future has already arrived in mundane, bodily ways. Rather than beginning with speculative fantasy or Silicon Valley futurism, the book starts at the ear, the heart, the eye, the joint. It starts with the author’s own body, shaped by hearing loss and medical devices, and from there builds a meditation ...