Surrealist image-use deliberately sacrifices utility and spirit to produce devoted, distorted lives.

Evidence

Glorious devastation! The principle of utility will become alien to all those who practise this superior vice. For them, the spirit will ultimately cease to be applied. They will see its limits rolled back, they will share this intoxication with all those whom the world counts as dreamers, as dissatisfied. Young people will devote themselves to this serious and fruitless game with passionate abandon. It will distort their lives. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 221

Categorization

• SHARE: Narrow tidbit — the exact Surrealist text denouncing ‘the principle of utility’ — worth sending to someone who reads Breton.
• XREF: connects to: Habit entails spirit’s self-sacrifice into lifeless determinate form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1053
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habit entails spirit’s self-sacrifice into lifeless determinate form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1053