This commentary poses the question: how do subjects recognise and evaluate what they are able tochange for themselves under algorithmic conditions that increasingly shape attention, desire, and anticipa-tion? Bringing Bernard Stiegler into dialogue with Ricœur, I consider what becomes of freedom in digitalsocieties if one is also to recognise Stiegler’s argument that human life is technologically constituted at itsgenesis. We were never voluntary, following Stiegler, since there was never a notion of voluntary humanchoice that could be bifurcated from involuntary acts of technologies from the start. This techno-geneticline of thought insists instead that freedom, needs, and desires at the level of the human subject concern atask of enacting a liberty to think differently given an originary human-technological entwinement.