Coercing the Delta. The French Grammar of Control in the African Landscape of Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1732

The long-term transformation of the Louisiana delta beginning in 1699 has been primarily understood as a French colonial struggle for the control of nature. Yet, in order for French colonisers to control nature, they first sought to control enslaved Africans. While slave coercion was a daily problem for French inhabitants, documentation of the 'routinized violence' of chattel slavery is predictably absent in records of the built environment. As a result, the building of colonial New Orleans, beginning in 1718, has become a story of French design, not of enslaved African labour. This paper examines the accounts and correspondence of French colonisers who veiled their own dependence on indigenous, indentured and enslaved people by adopting a performative language of mastery as they projected or described labour projects essential to the 'control of nature'. What colonisers could not master in person they performed on paper via pronouns, tenses, constructions and the passive voice. The 'French' Louisiana delta is better understood as an African-built landscape reinscribed on Indigenous territory under French coercion.

Aerodynamics Analysis and Range Enhancement Study of 81mm Mortar Shell (French Design)

The aim of this research is performing the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of 81mm Mortar Shell (French Design). The analysis is performed using ANSYS Fluent Software on three different Mach numbers (0.72, 0.76, and 0.84) and results are compared with existing design of 81mm HE M57D A2 Mortar. The drag coefficient of new modified design is found to be less than the existing model. The range of mortar shell is increased by 271 meters because of low drag coefficient with 5.96% percent increase in range and 15.73% decrease in drag coefficient value. Parabolic type; light weighted material fuze casing applied over the existing fuze will result in increase in aerodynamics, range enhancement and drag coefficient reduction. Weight optimization by using lighter material for mortar components and increasing the muzzle velocity can also increase flight duration of the projectile and increase its range. The analysis on 81mm Mortar Shell is a part of range enhancement study to overcome the short fall in required range of mortar shells.

RANCANG DESAIN ALAT PENGAYAK MODIFIED CASSAVA FLOUR (MOCAF) BERDASARKAN ANALISIS KEBUTUHAN, MORFOLOGI DAN TEKNIK

Modified Cassava Flour (MOCAF) which has been produced by small industries has a particle size that is not yet the Indonesian National Standard (SNI), so the quality needs to be improved using a sieving machine. The objectives of this study are 1) to analyze the design requirements of the sieving machine 2) to determine the design concept 3) to analyze the technique 4) to design the sieving device in the engineering drawing. The method used in this research is observation, interview and French design method. Based on the results of the needs analysis, it was found that the design concept of the MOCAF sieve tool that uses an electric motor, is easy to operate, is in accordance with the production capacity, has an SNI size mesh and the material used is affordable. The results of the morphological analysis show that the design concept that can be developed is the design concept 1. The results of the technical analysis show that the linear velocity of the belt is 5.58 m / s and the tensile stress at T1 is 0.23 MPa. The dimensions obtained based on the design results are 5 cm pulley length, 99 x 59 x 10 cm mesh dimension, 100 mesh size and 108 x 80 x 95 cm machine frame dimensions. Keywords: analysis, design, MOCAF, morphology, sieving

When marks become graphics. Rediscovering a forgotten Bertin’s fork?

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Adaptations of <i>Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps</i> (Bertin, 1967), and more broadly Jacques Bertin’s graphics research published since the mid-sixties, are manifold. So is the wide range of fields chosen to present various visual transformations and deep interpretations proposed to explain his actual graphical methods. From agriculture to demography, or european electric industry to animal behaviour responding to the light (pill bugs…), anything that can be quantified, compared and classified could fit in some graphic treatment for a better understanding. In this respect, graphics is able to go deeper and faster than any other analysis.</p><p>I would like to present a forgotten, unusual, rather unfinished, attempt to make use of graphics in a french design graduate school pedagogy during the eighties. Obviously, the impact of Bertin's research is huge in the cartography and social or historical sciences, but it seems seldom in the more casual educational domain, and more particularly in graphic design training course. Is it a paradox?</p>

The French Design

This chapter examines the ideas emerging at the end of the mercantilist era in France that served and celebrated agriculture, the diversely productive farms, rather than merchants and manufacturers. As mercantilist era came to a close, a combination of economic, political and intellectual forces set France ideologically apart from the rest of Europe. Merchant capitalism, an artisan class, and factory establishments had also appeared in France. Paris had become a city of merchants and their suppliers and workmen. Agriculture in France was more than an occupation; it was a way of life. The chapter considers the emergence of a group who called themselves Physiocrats or Les Économistes in France during the period in question, focusing on their views regarding the concepts of natural law and the produit net, mercantilism, class structure, and price determination.