"Toutes ces eaux!": Ecology and Empire in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes
Patrick Chamoiseau's latest novel, Biblique des derniers gestes (2002), is a staging of the tension between the defense of local particularity and immersion in what Hardt and Negri call Empire. This tension is explored most visibly through Chamoiseau's literal and figurative uses of water. The protagonist's relation to water constructs Martinican particularity, but it also catapults him into Empire, the network of interests that govern contemporary global relations. Water and other liquid forms also function as figurative models of political action and cultural identity that productively resolve some of the contradictions at the heart of contemporary postcolonial literature.
La créolité : une rupture en trompe-l'œil
Abstract Being Creole, a Delusive Rupture. — Not so long ago, the first among the demands voiced by the Antilles had to do with Negritude. The originality of Antillean cultures was thus reduced to the African portion of their origins. Thus turned into a sort of "nature", these cultures were not adequately seen as being dynamic. Nowadays, the demand to be creole (creolite) is trying to break free from this essentialism but with little success, because it is still, ultimately, stuck on the probiem of origins, which shuts cultural creativity up in respect for a reified "authenticity". Both demands, which very much use cultural facts for political ends and deplete identity by reducing itto filiation, are breeding grounds for forms of fundamentalism.
Application of Automatic Tracking Correlation Filtering in Motored Spindle Dynamic Balancing
According to the information characteristics of the dynamic imbalance signal and the definition of correlation function,the principles and algorithm of relevant filter with automatic tracking is given.In labview development system,based on the principles of relevant filter with automatic tracking,the graphics programming of extracting the dynamic imbalance signal is developed.With this programming,the vibration signal including different frequency harmonic signals and noise is processed by simulation and on-site experiment.The results show that: through relevant filter with automatic tracking,the dynamic imbalance signal under different rotating speed can be extracted accurately,and it can meet the requirement of motored spindle dynamic balancing measurement.