Towards becoming a minor intellectual: reading Edward Said alongside Deleuze and Guattari in the regime of post-truth

This article assesses Edward Said's thoughts on the role of intellectuals in the so-called regime of post-truth alongside the work of Deleuze and Guattari. I focus on Said's caution against 'the cult of expertise' and 'partisan policy intellectuals' under neoliberal globalisation and compare his views on 'intellectual exile' with Deleuze and Guattari's notion of 'minor'. I contemplate the possibilities of living as a minor intellectual, whose critical task is not to claim a moral majority or to commandeer a political territory but to imagine alternative, deterritorialising practices. In doing so, I reconsider different forms of resistance for today.