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

construction of the Center for Technological Experiment a­tion on the boulevard Victor .[po 33J"So for them, contrary to what Grinevald and Levy say, everythingis going along swimmingly. For the RATP, the decision is imminent. Allthat's left is to construct Aramis while refining the details that will allowit to go into production.""Yes, Norbert, but if you look at the chart where we sum up thephases (the line shows where we are now-see?), practically nothinghappens between this euphoric document and the July 1984 decisionto create the CET [see Figure 1 in Chapter 1]. What could they havebeen up to for three and a half years? They were dragging their feet,weren't they?""That's true. It's odd, they want to get it done quickly"And they wait forty-two months!""And in 1987 they finish it off rapidly. Poor Aramis.""You said it! In three months, a quick thrust to the jugular ."It's an extraordinary case," Norbert continued. "The project iscompletely ready to go, according to the engineers, but it's alsocompletely stalled. The whole thing must have played itself out in thisinterphase, right after the presidential election, during the Socialists'period of grace.""Ah! I'm finally going to sec the connection between technologyand politics that you've been beating me over the head with for threemonths.""If that's what you think, my friend, get ready for some surprises."""The more a technological project progresses, the more the role oftechnology decreases, in relative terms: such is the paradox of development.As a project takes shape, there is an increase in the number, quality,and stature-always relative and changing-of the actors to be mobilized.Petit was just one highly placed official. Now ministers and presidents areINTERPHASE