Said on Professionalism

“By professionalism I mean thinking of your work as an intellectual as something you do for a living, between the hours of nine and five with an eye on the clock, and another cocked at what is considered to be proper, professional behavior –not rocking the boat, not straying outside the accepted paradigms or limits, making yourself marketable and above all presentable, hence uncontroversial and apolitical and “objective”.”
Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual, 23