Techno-authoritarianism is not merely as a contingent alliance between Big Tech corporations and specific political actors, but an objective process of convergence between two distinct political logics: the platform-driven disintermediation of social reproduction and the progressive centralization of political decision-making within liberal democratic regimes.
Platforms operate through pervasive data extraction and algorithmic management of social cooperation, producing an organizational paradigm that is simultaneously diffuse and centralized, rhizomatic and panoptic. By penetrating social reproduction directly, platforms disintermediate traditional mediating institutions while actively shaping subjects and behaviors.
In parallel, liberal democracies are undergoing an internal erosion. Originally structured as systems of mediation among social interests through distributed powers, they are increasingly characterized by the concentration of decision-making within the executive. This long-term process - visible in technocratic governments, populist moments, and the current rise of neo- and post-fascist forces - is rooted in stagnant accumulation and capital concentration.
The convergence of these dynamics is further accelerated by a global war regime understood as the reorganization of societies around war as a political-economic paradigm, increasingly mediated by digital technologies.