This chapter offers an account of Theodor Adorno's philosophical position, which is then used to analyze various aspects of Nietzsche's thinking. Both thinkers interrogate the way in which the status quo is calcified within dominant forms of subjectivity—in the ascetic ideal for Nietzsche and the primacy of the subject in Adorno. Consequently, neither thinker is merely advancing a subjectivist critique of identity , but rather insisting on the suffered objectivity of the non-identical. In contrast to views of Nietzsche as valorizing immediacy, the body, necessity, or difference, one might see Nietzsche's fragmentary style and critique of systems as expressions of a negative dialectics, based on the primacy of the object , in which subjectivity would trace and negotiate the suffered social histories that condition it.