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

accident, after all. There has to be somebody in this story who's makinga profit. Or else I've had it right all along: they've all gotten carriedaway. In either case, if I were a journalist-if I were, but of course I'mnot -there would be something for the Canard. ""Strategy, my good man, is like context: an invention of vulgarsociologists. ""Do you mean to tell me we're going to do 'refined' sociologyagain, just when good old-fashioned crude sociology would be all we'dneed to denounce a good old-fashioned crude scandal?""Not refined, hyperrefined . . .And we went back to our interviews to "explain" the famousdecision of July 1984, giving up the helpful, handy solution of denouncingthe technocrats."The only actor that may have had a strategy was Matra. Rememberwhat Girard told us.""[INTERVIEW EXCERPTS]M. Girard:"In 1983, Matra was pushed. They couldn't go against the left-wingadministration, but at the same time they kept coming back to VAL."In fact, Aramis was imposed on Matra against the will of its leadershipteam, which doesn't mean that they didn't do a good job; on the contrary, itworked-the results are in-but they didn 't believe in it. They said to themselves'For 30 million, if that's what they want, okay, we'll do it, and it'll bring in 150million in research money. ' But VA L was always their target."They remained wedded to the old standbys. After Bardet, there wasnobody who was prepared to pick up the somewhat radical innovations andrun with them. Matra never went bock to Aramis, in the end. They stuck withthe classic standards, iudiciously applied." [no. 18]M. Freque, who headed the Aromis proiect at Matra after the new startupis speaking with the some frankness, the some subtlety in his analysis, the someextreme cordiality. The Aromis cab is still on display in the entry hall.''Let's say that we had the will to do it, but ."But not the wayl " [Laughter]"That's exactly right: we didn't have the wayl " .HE 1 9 34 DECISION