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The literary lineage traced by the Paris surrealists, via les poètes maudits, evokes a revolt of the ‘spirit’ — that is to say, a subjective, romantic rebellion against contemporary social strictures. Amongst this hagiographic pantheon of ‘surrealist saints’, André Breton’s acolytes were often drawn to those who deployed intoxicants in breaking down a bourgeois notion of the self, facilitating its supposedly liberated recomposition. This is something that finds its most celebrated expression in Rimbaud’s infamous call for a ‘derangement of all the senses’.
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Collier, C., Figiel, J. (2015). A Systemised Derangement of the Senses: The Situationist International and the Biopolitics of Dérive . In: Brennan, E., Williams, R. (eds) Literature and Intoxication. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-48766-7_10
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