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

supporters lost their fighting spirit, it was all over. In this business the BudgetOffice is everything ""But all expensive proiects are subiect to the same pressures by the BudgetOffice. This doesn't explain away Aramis. N"It's true that in aeronautics they're better organized . They have submarines,you might say, in the Budget Office [Laughter). Over here in g round transportation,our relations aren't as good ." [no. 22]M. Gontran, researcher with the Institute for Transportation Research:"Besides, there's a special problem with g round transportation. Its relationswith the Budget Office aren't cozy-they're not like those of civil aeronautics,for example. Those guys have got Budget Office personnel assigned to them .It's like the Trojan Horse: they explain, they make things clear. But with the DTIit doesn't work so well."Even for the SK, they had to tell the Budget Office sob stories to get threemillion out of them, which is minimal. The Budget Office made a huge fussaver those millions, even though the Japanese bought the system !"I have to say that this lack of confidence is due to failures, to the Bertinbusiness. There are lots of skeletons in the closets." [no. 42]"Now that one really has me convinced. The Budget Office iscrucial," I said enthusiastically."But it's still too big, my friend. Why not Parisian centralization,Napoleonic France? Why not technocracy, while you're at it? Everybodytalks about the Budget-Office-which-blocks-all-decisions-to-innovate.Forty Americans have written theses on the topic. No matter what thesubject, the Budget Office is the obstacle. France has been carrying onfor four hundred years, but Colbertism, Napoleonic centralization, andthe Budget Office, according to our distinguished analysts, prevent anychange on principle. 'Plus s;a change, plus c'est pareil,"' he added withan American accent. "It's not reasonable. It's crude sociology.""And what kind of sociology are we doing?""Refined, Mister Young Engineer, refined sociology which appliesto a single case, to Aramis and only Aramis. I'm not looking for anythingelse. A single explanation, for a single, unique case; then we11 trash it."INTERPHA.SE