PDF-[BOOK]-Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi (Princeton

The Canal du Midi which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean was an astonishing feat of seventeenthcentury engineeringin fact it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canals surprising political significance The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human control of nature just as surely as it linked the ocean to the seaThe Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of PierrePaul Riquet a tax farmer and entrepreneur for the canal Yet Chandra Mukerji argues that it was a product of collective intelligence depending on peasant women and artisansunrecognized heirs to Roman traditions of engineeringwho came to labor on the waterway in collaboration with military and academic supervisors Ironically while Louis XIV and his treasury minister JeanBaptiste Colbert used propaganda to present France as a new Rome the Canal du Midi was being constructed with unrecognized classical methods Still the result was politically potent As Mukerji shows the project took land and power from local nobles using water itself as a silent agent of the state to disrupt traditions of local life that had served regional elitesImpossible Engineering opens a surprising window into the world of seventeenthcentury France and illuminates a singular work of engineering undertaken to empower the state through technical conquest of nature. Basic Concepts www.sociology.org.uk Sociology Centralwww.sociology.org.ukCrime and Deviance In this section of the course we will be exploring the nature of conformity to - and deviation from -social Sophie Wu. History. 1982, Dave Smith met . Ikutaro. . Kakehashi. 1983, the MIDI 1.0 Specification. Digital Music. Midi what?. Technical standard. MMA. MIDI committee of AMEI. 3 parts. The message . Status Byte. Bobby Fata. CC Lab. What is MIDI?. Stands for “musical instrument digital interface”. Released 1982. “In . 1983, the MIDI Specification was only about 8 pages long and defined only the most basic instructions one might want to send between two synthesizers -- things like how to play notes and how to control the output volume, etc. Very quickly, the arrival of this ‘common (digital) language' created demand for new MIDI messages that enabled greater control of synthesizers but also for control of other recording gear and even stage lighting. MIDI also enabled computers to be applied to the music-making process. Although the way that MIDI works has not changed since 1983 (also almost preposterously inconceivable), the MIDI protocol has grown to encompass such additional concepts as: standardized MIDI song files ( General MIDI , 1991); new connection mechanisms such as USB, FireWire, and . for the year… or this month?. Higher school of engineering. Ural Federal University. Background. Why impossible? The Project is very complex.. ...So the project manager have no time to understand everything.. “Human territoriality is the attempt to control what goes on in a specific geographical area. There are various ways to control space that range from pure physical force of an individual to organized sets of law. Most geographers believe that human territoriality differs from the territorial behavior observed in other forms of life because human behavior is learned and animal behavior is instinctive.”. st. Century. 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And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to develop a “radical microsociology.” It proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy. Each person flows from situation to situation, drawn to those interactions where their cultural capital gives them the best emotional energy payoff. Thinking, too, can be explained by the internalization of conversations within the flow of situations individual selves are thoroughly and continually social, constructed from the outside in.The first half of Interaction Ritual Chains is based on the classic analyses of Durkheim, Mead, and Goffman and draws on micro-sociological research on conversation, bodily rhythms, emotions, and intellectual creativity. The second half discusses how such activities as sex, smoking, and social stratification are shaped by interaction ritual chains. For example, the book addresses the emotional and symbolic nature of sexual exchanges of all sorts?—?from hand-holding to masturbation to sexual relationships with prostitutes?—?while describing the interaction rituals they involve. This book will appeal not only to psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists, but to those in fields as diverse as human sexuality, religious studies, and literary theory. The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal\'s surprising political significance. The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human control of nature just as surely as it linked the ocean to the sea.The Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a tax farmer and entrepreneur for the canal. Yet Chandra Mukerji argues that it was a product of collective intelligence, depending on peasant women and artisans--unrecognized heirs to Roman traditions of engineering--who came to labor on the waterway in collaboration with military and academic supervisors. Ironically, while Louis XIV and his treasury minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert used propaganda to present France as a new Rome, the Canal du Midi was being constructed with unrecognized classical methods. Still, the result was politically potent. As Mukerji shows, the project took land and power from local nobles, using water itself as a silent agent of the state to disrupt traditions of local life that had served regional elites.Impossible Engineering opens a surprising window into the world of seventeenth-century France and illuminates a singular work of engineering undertaken to empower the state through technical conquest of nature.