Transformations of Human Existence in the Age of Technology: From Dasein to the Algorithmic Human – Heidegger as a Model

Abstract

This article investigates the transformation of human existence in the age of technology by tracing the trajectory from Heidegger's early analytic of Dasein to what may be called the "algorithmic human." Starting from Heidegger's account of Dasein as being-in-the-world, thrownness, and the distinction between authentic and inauthentic existence, the article moves to his later meditation on technology as a mode of revealing (Entbergen), culminating in the notion of Enframing (Gestell) as the essence of modern technology. It then asks whether the algorithmic mediation of contemporary life – through recommendation systems, predictive profiling, and automated decision-making – constitutes a radicalization of Gestell, one in which the human being is challenged-forth not merely as standing-reserve but as a continuously optimized data-subject. Drawing on Heidegger's own texts alongside Arabic Heideggerian scholarship and contemporary philosophy of technology (Feenberg, Stiegler), the article argues that the question of authenticity remains open in the algorithmic age, and that recovering a free relation to technology requires the same releasement (Gelassenheit) Heidegger called for in confronting the technological essence of modernity.