The Intellectual (n.) is, in a society such as ours, tasked to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
The Intellectual (n.) is manipulated into perpetuating totalization when he things that the pursuit of knowledge can be extricated from the articulation of power.
An Intellectual (n.) detaches the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic, and cultural, within which it operates at the present time.
An Intellectual (n.) does not struggle to 'awaken consciousness' but to sap power, to take power: A struggle conducted alongside those who struggle for power.
An Intellectual (n.) struggles against the forms of power that transform him into its object and instrument in the sphere of 'knowledge,' 'truth,' 'consciousness,' and 'discourse.
The Intellectual's (n.) work is not to mould the political will of others... it is to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).
The Intellectual (n.) is tasked not with placing himself 'somewhat ahead and to the side' in order to express the stifled truth of the collectivity... rather, his role is to struggle against the forms of power that transform him into its object and instrument in the sphere of 'knowledge,' 'truth,' 'consciousness,' and 'discourse'.
The Intellectual (n.) is the one who sees to it that the others don't have such a clear conscience.