@article{article_1640494, title={MACHINIC ASSEMBLAGES IN TANPINAR’S POETICS AND NARRATIVES: BETWEEN CONSTRAINT AND CREATIVITY}, journal={Türkbilig}, volume={2025}, pages={399–427}, year={2025}, DOI={10.59257/turkbilig.1640494}, author={Altuğ, Fatih}, keywords={Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, makinesellik, terkip, Türk modernizmi, yaratıcılık, Deleuze ve Guattari, ritim, molar ve moleküler dinamikler}, abstract={This article investigates Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s persistent engagement with machinic imagery and concepts, illuminating the interplay between human creativity, technological structures, and societal systems. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of assemblage, it argues that Tanpınar’s portrayal of machines transcends metaphor, functioning as dynamic systems of heterogeneous interactions that transform poetic, narrative, and social processes. His works conceptualize poetry as a “fluid alloy” of interconnected elements, resembling an organism where rhythm, atmosphere, and coherence emerge through assemblages of words, emotions, and images. Similarly, the short story and the novel become machinic spaces where fragmentary flows are recombined to generate narrative and subjective transformation. Tanpınar’s critique of mechanization balances this creative vision with an awareness of its constraints. Molar machines, exemplified by rigid societal and institutional systems, impose standardization and suppress individual agency, as seen in his depictions of automaton-like characters and bureaucratic life. Yet, molecular flows —fluid, transformative forces within machinic assemblages— offer moments of aesthetic and existential innovation, highlighting the tension between stability and creativity. By situating Tanpınar’s vision of machinery within Deleuze and Guattari’s framework, this study reexamines his contribution to Turkish modernism, revealing literature as a site of perpetual negotiation between mechanized control and creative potential. Through this lens, Tanpınar’s works underscore how assemblages mediate identity, culture, and artistic production, positioning the machine as both a site of constraint and a catalyst for transformation.}, number={49}, publisher={Hacettepe Üniversitesi}, organization={TÜBİTAK Project No:124K480 (The Literary Republic of More Than Humans: Entangled Relationship Networks of Humans, Animals, Plants and Objects in Turkish Literature (1923-2023))}