Introduction: Adorno, Utopia, negativity, and now -- Adorno no sell out: a critical response to Richard Wolin -- Adorno without negativity: a preliminary encounter with Jacques Derrida -- Adorno and the Sex Pistols -- Radical formalism and the working class: a critical articulation of Adorno and Bourdieu -- Afterword: unlikely compatriots of Utopia: Wilde and Adorno.