Abstract:This talk examines the place of the concept of “becoming-minor” forwarded by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their deliberated reading of Kafka, placed alongside “becoming minority”, as a means of political and social orientation and praxis. In these times of a post-truth politics, loss of autonomy, and increasing global vocabulary of restrictions and censorships (immigration, labor, literature, art), this is an attempt to negotiate with being-in-the-world and what it might entail in terms of a literary and artistic production of a *demos*. Using Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of a conceptual toolbox that may be used towards deconstructive practice, it would be helpful to ask what would an ethical political practice of the self consist of, and how may it be actualized in the social milieu.

Sandhya Devesan Nambiar is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi. She received her Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2011, and has been teaching in DelhiUniversity since. She was a fellow at the *Institute of Critical Social Inquiry*, at the New School in New York in 2015. She is the co-editor of *Sentiment, Politics, Censorship: The State of Hurt** published 2015, andis currently working on the idea of the good as political emotion, and animal studies. *