The Data Dandy and Sovereign Media: An Introduction to the Media Theory of ADILKNO

A number of alternative media strategies have developed in Amsterdam, particularly in response to the squatters’ movement of the 1980s; one of their offshoots is the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge (ADILKNO), of which the author is a member. Drawing on ADILKNO’s writings on the subject, the author describes and characterizes various patterns that have emerged out of the city’s alternative media activity, such as the antimedia movement, the extra-medial, sovereign media and data dandyism.