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

project that was an amusing dossier that needed to be closed in a hurry,it's not doing badly at all.Contextualization is fabricated and negotiated like everything else:by tying bigger and bigger pots and pans, and more and more of them,to the project's tail. When it stirs, it's going to stir up all of France. It makesenough commotion to wake up a minister. But the pots and pans still haveto be found; they have to be tied on tight, and the beast has to be madeto move. A lot of work that the notion of "context-given-in-advance" haughtilyrefuses to acknowledge. This neglect is all the more damaging in thatsuch work can be undone. When Aramis dies, in 1987, no minister willstir. All the pots and pans will have been removed. Those who werecounting on the irreversibility of the context to keep their technologies alivewake up in the cemetery.[INTERVIEW EXCERPTS]M. Girard is speaking once again:"How do you explain the paradoxical fact that the CET started up againiust when everybody Finally was beginning to have doubts?""First, the backbone of the thing is the southern part of the Petite Ceinture,with its branch lines. There we developed a project that corresponded, like itor not, to a certain number of objectives. That project mode it clear, perhaps,that extensions 01 the metro were financial crimes."For example, there was a plan to extend line 4 toward the south; thatwould have completely downgraded the line. The Porte d'Orleans terminus isremarkable; it does its job in 80 seconds. We would have really messed thingsup on the operational level and spent colossal sums if they'd insisted onextending the lines. The RATP was burdened with a series of projects involvingthe extension of lines-projects that it didn't know how to get rid 01. Aramiswas on alibi. Everybody got excited about it; we spent three or four millionfrancs for a mediocre interest, but in any event no one said another thing aboutextensions. ""Could you go bock over the list of proiect supporters in /983-84? Thisis the period I'm having the most trouble grasping.""Okay, there was the Mauroy administration, which strongly supported it.It was supported by Quin It was supported by me-I was very happy aboutit, although skeptical; I would be able to nip in the bud the line-extensionprojects that I really didn't like. Then there was Orly-Rungis [predecessor of,NIlRPl1 ASE