Abstract
This article re-reads the tale of Deli Dumrul (one of the stories of the Book of Dede Korkut), who built a bridge over a dried-up riverbed to collect tribute from both passengers and non-passengers. He usually surfaces when a government demands new taxes, drafts new regulations putting the citizens in charge, a bureaucrat or politician asks bribery for their duties, etc. This article suggests that Dumrul is one of the archetypes that represent the image of the state in the political culture of Turkey. Deli Dumrul presents a scheme to track some specific affects which play an active role in contemporary politics, such as individual and/or collective anxiety of survival.
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