[ book tip by [ Medienkunst ] ] Adilkno ('The Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge') is a Dutch group of (extra-academic) media theorists. Media Archive brings together fifty short essays, dense conceptual writings in the tradition of speculative negative thought.

The central motive is the (impossible) attempt to imagine a world after (or beyond and besides) the ever-expanding mediascape. Instead of quality, censorship, and other elitist forms of media ecology, Adilkno is celebrating the excisive overload of data, channels, and concepts in the hope that a total proliferation will one day exhaust us and decrease media power altogether. The motives and masks are various: from the Data Dandy to Wetware, from Sovereign Media to Vague Media, from Electronic Solitude to the Society of the Debacle.

[ book info ] Adilkno, : Media Archive. World Edition. Autonomedia, New York 1998 . ISBN: 1-57027-079-1.