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

agree. "They're aiming at VA L in spite of the complicated Aramis that wewanted to impose on them." "We were aiming at VAL in spite of the uselesscomplications that they wanted to impose on us." This superposition is anexception. The methodological rule that consists in letting the actors defineeach other can accommodate all cases, including the miraculous one ofagreement between the one who is defining and the one who is beingdefined."But all these interviews, Norbert-we're doing them in 1987and talking about 1981, 1982, 1984. How can \"le believe these people?And besides, the fact that the project has been terminated makes themeven less believable. They all know what happened. They can all tell usstories about ineluctable destiny; it doesn't cost them a thing.""They're all telling us stories, that's for sure. But they all tellthemselves stories, stories about strategy, scenarios, with lots of thingslike: 'Once upon a time there was an RATP that wanted to get evenfor being humiliated'; or 'Once upon a time there was a charmingcapitalist who dreamed of entering Paris right under the king's nose. 'We have to write everything down, that's all. Who's saying it? Aboutwhom? To whom? When? Referring to what period?"So you write it down:"M. Freque, on such-and-such a date, tells us (that's you and me),speaking about 1984, that in his opinion the RATP, represented byM. Girard, wanted such-and-such a thing and that he learned it byundergoing such-and-such a trial."Look at the note he didn't want to let us have. That's anexperiment. He thought the RATP was flexible and ready for a compromise.He notices that he was wrong. That the RATP was furious,that Matra had to change its language. He tells us, us, that this experimentrevealed to him the true goals and inclinations of the RATP.""But is it true? Did it really happen that way? Did the RATP reallywant that?""We don't know a thing about it, and that's not the issue. All wedo is write down the stories people tell us."•