Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, PDF - Dss-edit.com

As a young engineer, I refused to confuse motors and railroadtracks with words."But which one of those sEJntences tells the right story?""All of them, none of them. The one you get carried away with;the one that would really carry you away, from the boulevard Victor toBercy-that's the one that would be the right story.""But then the right story would be endless; the sentence wouldbe so long you wouldn't have enough breath to say it, or enough paperto write it down.""No, because the more reality we take on, the more the arithmeticchanges. An infinity of stable elements becomes a single element. Foryou, for the user, the sentence becomes: 'I'm taking Aramis and I'm onmy way. ' Not even. The sentence is: 'I'm on my way, I'll be at theboulevard Victor at 4: 30.' You don't even mention Aramis' name anvmore. "A text so long that it becomes a mute thing, a text so long thatit ends up recruiting enough things and endowing them with enoughmeaning to keep quiet and make me speak, me, the animal endowedwith speech-this mystified me even more than the puzzle we weresupposed to be solving. Now that my mentor no longer dazzled me,I'm sure the reader will understand why I took steps at that pointunsuccessfully,alas-to change my internship and enroll in the programin Man-Machine Interaction and Artificial Intelligence./[INTERVIEW EXCERPTS]M. Berger, speaking at RATP headquarters."Throughout this whole period, you must remember, there's something thatworks really well, it's a major innovation: I'm talking about the rotory motor,the variable-reluctance motor. It isn't functional; it's not related to the transportationsystem; it's not electronic. But maybe this is precisely why it's a greatsuccess." [no. 14JSHILLY SHALLYING IN THE SEVENTiES