In an administered world, the different survives only by adopting administrative methods.

Evidence

In a radio broadcast in 1960 entitled Vienna', he took the view that Uncompromising insistence on objectively structured form draws the subject into that form, while the neo-classicists’ non-committal from usurped its validity by violently driving the subject out.’ In the broadcast, he welcomed contemporary music as liberating the Second Viennese School from its remaining stale, petty-bourgeois elements, and as being an advanced form of liberation. Ever the willing dialectician, he admitted his sympathy for a will to self-assertion that made use of organizational skills. `In the administered world, what is different can only survive the winter, can only find its voice, by using administrative methods. There is something hypocritical about expressions of distaste for so-called cliques in a culture in which the universal law is particularism.’ He welcomed the fact that the most advanced music had at last freed itself from the taboos of fashion. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 542

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Adorno’s argument that radical particularity can persist only through complicity with the universal adminstrative medium inverts the usual resistance model.
• XREF: Echoes the ‘culture industry’ and ‘administered world’ theses from Dialectic of Enlightenment; connect to the Frankfurt School institutional history. — connects to: When concepts meet particulars only externally, administration can brand and liquidate individuals
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: When concepts meet particulars only externally, administration can brand and liquidate individuals