Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo .
Files are not simply adm.
From a media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and law reveal themselves to be effects of specific record-keeping and filing practices.
With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over.
Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo