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

[INTERVIEW EXCERPTS]At the Ministry of Transportation, a technical adviser is speaking:"I have trouble seeing why you're doing this study; there's really no mysteryhere. May 1981-you do know what that was all about. And March 1986as well. * The Left brings Aramis back to life and the Right kills it off"Each time, there was a lag of a year or two; that's normal, given the snail'space at which they deal with dossiers. The technologists stubbornly kept onwith their work. Not the politicians, who'd changed their minds. That happensa lot. Nothing can be done in this country without the shock waves providedby elections. The politicians have been completely inconsistent in dealing withthis proiect. ""But it seems to me, since it's general and applies to all proiects, that aninnovation ought to be able to hold up against these changes in politicalpersonnel. VA L lived through two changes of administration; 5ACEM did, too,and so did the Poma-2000, the Rarale, and who knows what else. ""Yes, but Aramis was much more vulnerable to variations in the politicolenvironment; no one really wanted anything to do with it.""So there are other ways to account for this vulnerability?" [no. 13]"You don't seem to believe in the political explanation.""No. That's all Big Politics. Wait till Wednesday; you1l see whetheror not Big Politics explains anything."[INTERVIEW EXCERPTS]M. Piebeau, an economic adviser at the Transportation Ministry:"What is completely left out of your question, Sir (although it does includeinteresting assumptions that I'm not going to dispute). is the economic dimension.*Fran