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

perFect lucidity, the company head recognizes that he Forced the manuFacturerto complicate, reluctantly, a project he didn't believe in, while themanufacturer For his part admits that he agreed to complicate Aramis onlybecause it was the shortest path to achieving it, given the strategic positionoccupied by the person who wanted to complicate it-a position that themanufacturer had given up trying to modify!Two conversions, one definitive and the other tentative, transformedthe Aramis praject, which was at a standstill, into a politicC11 football. It wasdeliberately attached to the context of Right/Left alternation by the RATPcompany head. To this attachment, a Matra head had been reluctantlyconverted. As For Matra's president, he thought he had found a secondVAL in an Aramis supported by the Left. This enthusiastic support was itselFattributable to the RATP president and to the minister, both Communists,who thought they had, in an Aramis unanimously supported (they believed)by the technologists, a showcase that would present both high-level Frenchtechnology and a renovated public-transportation system. How could theydoubt Aramis, since both of the highest-placed directors of a private firmsupported the project along with all the engineers of the RATP and theTransportation Ministry? Once again, as at Orly, Aramis was a dream, theideal sociotechnological compromise, the dream that would simultaneouslyadvance the P.c. (the Communist Party), the P.c. (the Petite Ceinture),capitalism, socialism, modernization, the maintenance of great social triumphs,and in particular would make it possible to bring about, in one fellswoop, both state-of-the-art research with multiple goals and industrialdevelopment that would transport real passengers."Things are getting clearer," my mentor declared. "Once again,you see, all is for the best. It could have worked. Aramis' road is pavedwith good intentions. We have to go check with the other partners,especially at the Transportation Ministry and the He-de-France Region,to find out whether thev, too, believed in Aramis because the othersjdid.""But there's no end to this," I said to Norbert. "We'll have to gofrom the minister's office to the Minister himself, from there to thepresident, and from the president to all their international counterparts.INTERPHASE