The “Austrian School of Critical Political Economy”? A Review of Thomas Allmer’s Book “Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism”

Authors

  • Jernej Amon Prodnik Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v10i2.452

Keywords:

Thomas Allmer, Political Economy of Communication, Karl Marx, Critique of Political Economy, Michel Foucault, Panopticon, Surveillance, Economic Surveillance, Internet, Accumulation Process, Austrian School of Critical Political Economy

Abstract

This article is a review of Thomas Allmer’s book “Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism”. The book was published in 2012 by the publishing house Peter Lang (in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, New York, Oxford […]). In the start of the article the author also poses the question whether there is a new school of thought emerging, namely the “Austrian School of Critical Political Economy”.

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Author Biography

  • Jernej Amon Prodnik, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

    Researcher at the Social Communication Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.

    Teaching Assistant, Media Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.

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Published

2012-10-29

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Book Reviews

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tripleC is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal (ISSN: 1726-670X). All journal content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License.

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