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Flows and Interruptions: Deleuze, Guattari and the Modern State

It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times faltering before it breathes, it heats, it eats. Everywhere there are machines, real ones not figurative  machines, driving other machines and being driven by others in turn.

On Monday, may 11, we will discuss the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. In their work Anti-Oedipus, the world does not consists of individuals but of a network of flows and interruptions.

But what happens when institutions attempt to tame these flows? What if the state stands in direct opposition to our rhizomatic overgrowth, attempting to channel everything back into rigid, hierarchical tracks?

Together with Guilel Treiber and interviewer Arjen Kleineherenbrink, we will explore Deleuze’s thoughts on the state en the transition to the ‘Society of control’. We will move beyond hierarchical structures to examine the rhizome: a network without a beginning, without an end, and without a center, where power no longer just comes from above.

Location: ’t Haantje (Daalseweg 19, Nijmegen)
Date: Monday, May 11

Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: €4
Speaker: Guilel Treiber, lecturer in philosophical ethics and political philosophy at Radboud University
Interviewer: Arjen Kleinherenbrink, associate professor of metaphysics and philosophical anthropology
Music: Pino

Datum: Maandag 11 mei 2026
Tijd: 20:00u – 22:00u
Locatie: Café ’t Haantje (Daalseweg 19, Nijmegen)
Toegang: € 4,-