Stasis and the State: The Role of Nomadic Forces in the Thought of Deleuze and Guattari and the Formation of Iranian National Identity

The purpose of this collaborative article is to provoke discussion on the topic of national State power and national identity. For this purpose, we will first put forward an edited version of the theory of State formation developed by the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, before discussing the way in which Iranian national identity was formed in the years running up to, and during, the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.