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

Why not go see Ronald Reagan, or the Chinese? And why not followthe chips clear to South Korea? After all -they, too, decide on Aramis'fate; they're its context.""We have to stop somewhere.""So it doesn't matter where? We just stop when we 're tired?""One, when we run out of money for expenses; two, when thecontextualizers themselves stop. If they tell us, 'The minister wasinterested in it for only a few minutes; he had other things on his mind;he put me in charge of the dossier, ' we can retrace our steps, sinceAramis has fallcn out of the minister's purview. Beyond that limit, theanalyses are no longer valid, since they're no longer specific. Then we'dstudy something else-ground transportation, for example, or Communistministers, or technocracy.""But I thought we had to take everything into account. I even readsome philosopher, I think, or a sociologist, Edgar Morin, who said thatevery techno-bio-political problem was also a political-techno-biologicalproblem . . . and that the politics of chips were also the chips of politicsor something like that. You're letting go while everything is tiedtoget h er. ""Few things are coming together, on the contrary; they're rareand fragile filaments, not big bubbles to be tied together by big arrows.Their extensions are unpredictable, it's true; their length as well. Andthey're very heterogeneous. Maybe we'll go to South Korea after all,or well go see Reagan , but simply because the Aramis maze will obligeus to draw a picture of that corridor of its labyrinth, and because anAriadne has slipped her thread into it, not because we have to take intoaccount the international element, or the technological infrastructure."He even obliged me to observe for myself that the violent blowhe struck with his fist on his desk had no visible influence on the chapterof Aristotle's Metaphysics that was filed under the letter A at the top ofhis bookshelf."You see: not everything comes together, not everything is connected."After that interesting physics demonstration, he harangued me