Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, PDF - Dss-edit.com
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"You wont to solve a mystery, do you? Fine. But <strong>the</strong>re is no mystery as faras I'm concerned."Ara mis w<strong>or</strong>ks very well, but <strong>the</strong> economy hasn't kept up. <strong>Aramis</strong> began ina period <strong>of</strong> euph<strong>or</strong>ia; m<strong>or</strong>eover, a pretty rosy picture was pointed <strong>of</strong> what <strong>the</strong>project would cost. Okay, but <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> costs went way up and we went intoa period <strong>of</strong> crisis. So <strong>Aramis</strong> no longer hod pri<strong>or</strong>ity. It's not much m<strong>or</strong>e<strong>com</strong>plicated than that. It's a question <strong>of</strong> ebb and flow like tides. <strong>Aramis</strong> wasfloating along at high tide; <strong>the</strong>n it washed up on <strong>the</strong> sand.""Excuse me, but that strikes me os on unf<strong>or</strong>tunate metaph<strong>or</strong>. In Brittany, ifyou go boating, you get poles ready, <strong>or</strong> a removable keel, so you can runaground safely. Whereas it seems to me <strong>the</strong> Aromis project didn 't anticipate<strong>the</strong> reversal <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> flow It thinks it's still soiling in <strong>the</strong> M<strong>edit</strong>erranean, where, aseveryone knows, <strong>the</strong>re aren 't any tides. ""You're playing with w<strong>or</strong>ds. You can't prepare yourself f<strong>or</strong> a maj<strong>or</strong> economiccrisis-on oil crisis, f<strong>or</strong> example.""S<strong>or</strong>ry to leon so heavily on this point, but <strong>the</strong> decision to construct <strong>the</strong> eETwas made in July 1984, ten years after <strong>the</strong> oil crisis. ""Pr<strong>of</strong>itability-you're not going to jettison that, are you? A project has to bepr<strong>of</strong>itable, at least a little bit."'Again, f<strong>or</strong>give me, but all <strong>the</strong> economic rep<strong>or</strong>ts during <strong>the</strong> entire fifteenyears devoted to <strong>the</strong> <strong>Aramis</strong> pro;ect-all except <strong>the</strong> last one-were fav<strong>or</strong>ableto Aromis, highly so. ""But we all know what economic studies are w<strong>or</strong>th.""That's my point, that's exactly my point! So <strong>the</strong>re <strong>or</strong>e o<strong>the</strong>r reasons; <strong>the</strong>remust be . .. " [no. 8J"The economy, <strong>the</strong>n?""I don't believe in <strong>the</strong> economy any m<strong>or</strong>e than in politics. Theeconomic calculus-it's like that American joke : 'When my wife amI Iagree, my wife makes <strong>the</strong> decisions.' We 'll have to look at <strong>the</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>itabilitycalculations, but I have <strong>the</strong> impression <strong>the</strong>y came after <strong>the</strong>decisions were made. In any case, in public transp<strong>or</strong>tation, acc<strong>or</strong>dingto what Licvin told me, what is pr<strong>of</strong>itable? With <strong>the</strong> <strong>com</strong>puls<strong>or</strong>ytransp<strong>or</strong>tation tax <strong>of</strong> 1 percent <strong>or</strong> even 1.5 percent on every salary,______ ___________________________ ________INTE RPH. AS E ""nIII____
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