ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Bernard Stiegler's account of the evolving connectivity between bioscience, nanotechnology, cybernetics and artificial intelligence, and his exposition of the transhumanist horizon of neoliberal capitalism. It concerns the development of a universal connectedness of thought, language, desire and action that occurs through the convergence of biotechnological, cybernetic and computational programmes. The chapter discusses the way in which the internal connectivity of the arche-programme of hyperindustrial society has evolved. It examines the processes through which human beings have been transformed into expressions of biopower, and the way that this prepared them for a progressive absorption into the networks of the arche-programme. The chapter reviews Stiegler's modification of the concept of Dasein and its relationship to the technological tendency that he identifies as underlying the evolution of human society. It specifies the operational logics of the programmes through which hyperindustrial society has expanded its reproductive potential.
