Drawing on T.W. Adorno's essay "Art and the arts" ["Die Kunst und die Künste"], this paper tries to explore the implications of the hypothesis of an aesthetic in-fringe-ment [Verfransung] whereby the different artistic genres refuse to occupy the place assigned to them by traditional aesthetic theories and start to draw close to each other. A pictorial, spatialized music, a temporalized painting, a serialized literature and a literalized musical score make visible a common denominator to them all, namely, their linguistic character. In this movement towards unification it is possible to find the elements for a fruitful dialogue between Adorno's social philosophy of art and contemporary discourses on the postmodern. On the one hand, a new artistic space is created, one that deserves to be called postmodern; on the other, the infringement of the arts allows for a criticism of ideologically eclectic, non-infringed, postmodern theories.
aesthetics; Frankfurt School; postmodernity