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

• Main Author: Jernej Amon Prodnik
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: tripleC 2012-10-01
• Series: tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
• Subjects: 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
• Online Access: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/452
• ISSN: 1726-670X; 1726-670X

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”.