2018
Cairn
Nicolas Le Dévédec, « Corps et âme : Le transhumanisme, nouvel horizon biopolitique du capitalisme ? », L'Homme & la Société, ID : 10670/1.f1fe1e...
Will transhumanism and the ideology of human enhancement that it promotes not represent the new productive horizon of contemporary capitalist societies? With the aim of improving human performance through the use of biomedicine, transhumanist ideology fits perfectly into the productivist logic of capitalism while at the same time dramatically radicalizing its scope. The transhumanist discourse opens to the extension and the interference of the neoliberal rationality even in the most corporeal intimacy of the individuals. Instilling new pressures of performance and increasing individual internalization of these requirements, the biopolitics of enhancement opens up new forms of exploitation of bodies and subjectivities in working environments. Behind the high-tech mask of the enhanced human – smarter, stronger and happier – this article finally aims to show that it is rather the old productivist figure of the Man-machine that is emerging again.