What the word intellectual means to me today is, first of all, conferences and roundtable discussions and symposia in magazines about the role of intellectuals in wich well-known intellectuals have agreed to pronounce on the inadequacy, credulity, disgrace, treason, irrelevance, obsolescence, and imminent or already perfected disappearance of the cast to which, as their participation in these events testifies, they belong.
Answers to a Questionnaire, Susan Sontag, em Where the Stress Falls