Adilkno (1998), 'What is Data Criticism?' in Media Archive, New York: Autonomedia, pp. 57-59.

Criticism in the work of the Frankfurt School serves the purpose of exposing the object value of traditional theory as being class-defined. Theory and criticism had to be combined as negation. There could no such thing as positive criticism and when contemporary criticism is considered, as with much of the criticism of recent decades, their views appear to hold: 'criticism thus succumbed to the ego trip of a better world that starts and end with oneself' (Adilkno, 1998: 57). Positive criticism leads to nothing as history seems to demonstrate, and has become a self-serving commodity - for instance in the case of the art review. The essay 'What is Data Criticism?' laments the age when critique threatened the very fabric of society. This seems untenable now when Marxism has been replaced by too many interconnections that make any one prime suspect difficult to identify  - 'the quest for an opposable common denominator' (Adilkno, 1998: 58). The anonymous author proposes that: 
'Under the rule of unhistorical immaterialism, only absolute data criticism is a feasible option. [...] the only targets left for left for negation are the entire boot and root sectors of the media disk. Data criticism is the art of the absolute negation of information.' (1998: 59)