I guess one definition of intellectual parasitism would be always leeching on to other writer's words and thoughts, rather than articulating one's own. Some examples hover close at hand...
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 00:09:11 -0500
From: Genevieve Castle Room <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Parasitism
>"Imagine a republic that bans commentary and attempts to reinvest us with
faith in aesthetic immediacy. The parasitism of academic criticism and
journalistic reviewing ceases, the unmanageable flood of unreadable
dissertations subsides, and the interposition of professional opinion
between work and audience is eliminated [....] Aesthetic perception knows
no Archimedean point outside discourse.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v11/n11/wendy-steiner/silence
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