When Adorno writes, “in the midst of art, the social thorn grows back,” he says that the opening toward the socio-biopolitical sphere of facts belongs to art, whether art wants it or not. Art cannot succeed in locking itself into an l’art pour l’art aestheticism or immanentism. But with this and with the same emphasis, he says that in the midst of the social domain, art can exist: art that is art only because it does not completely assimilate to the social order.