Adorno carefully scripted the Institute’s group-discussion stimulus to deflect employer blame

Evidence

This kind of discussion between Tom, Dick and Harry is perfectly normal and routine, and so are the positions that are taken in it; there is no danger at all of the blame for harsh statements about the employers being put on us. In addition, care will be taken that the report expressly states that these positions and statements directly take up themes from the articles by Tom, Dick and Harry in the company news-sheet. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2062

Categorization

• XREF: The Institute has shifted from studying authority’s victims to conducting contracted research for corporate power, a tension Friedman’s sociology of research funding would recognize; echoes the earlier Ford Foundation compromises.