Can the surrealist group ethos of "permanent strike"—a life lived in total avoidance of paid work—be considered a form of progressive post-work imagining, or was the surrealist advocacy of laziness and work resistance just another indication of class privilege? In a lecture stemming from her recent book “Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work,” Abigail Susik (Willamette University) grapples with the ethical implications and aesthetic applications of the surrealist war on work in Europe and the United States between the 1920s and the 1970s.