The Secret of Becoming Nobody … and Everybody

The article unpacks Deleuze’s understanding of the radical potential lying in Kierkegaard’s notion of subjectivity. It explains why Kierkegaard’s figure of the knight of faith is pertinent for our present age and traces the manner in which Deleuze reconstructs this figure for developing his own concept of becoming and, specifically, of ‘becoming nobody’. But why is Deleuze, a self-proclaimed philosopher of difference, attracted to the idea of ‘becoming imperceptible’? We answer this question by showing how the Kierkegaardian notion of interiority turns into a key concept within a new Deleuzian understanding of the political.