A Deleuzo-Guattarian Analysis of Rupture, Flow, and Recombinant Power

Cosmos: Deleuze -> Deleuzian

This white paper reconceptualizes capitalism not as a system or structure but as a topological rupture—a puncture in the social, economic, and psychological manifold. Drawing from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, we analyze capitalism's unique capacity to simultaneously create and exploit discontinuities, transforming smooth spaces into striated territories while generating new flows that escape its own apparatus of capture. The puncture is both wound and portal—a site of extraction and potential liberation.