Paper presentation during the ACIS National Conference 2023 in San Jose, CA. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of the event and the plane of immanence, this paper explores how anxiety and the material world, illustrated through Krapp’s reworking of his past on tape, allows him to compress space, time and self into the event, in this case his impending death in relation to the totality of his life, states which cannot be divided.