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

even includes direct quotes! A prototype sample gets into a mockup ofAramis. A mockup public interprets the Aramis prototype.As it happens, the representative and represented humans do notsubscribe to all that has been said about them for the last ten years. Themain advantage that the transportation experts are excited about-thecross between private cars and public transportation-is profoundly shockingto the man in the street. Customers constitute as disagreeable a bunchof scoundrels as readers. You make a fine book for them, one that takesthem by the hand, and they call it incomprehensible; you make a lovelyAramis for them, and they call it a gadget for healthy people or for a themepark-and they claim that the metro is psychologically more reassuring!It's enough to make you tear your hair. You offer them the hybrid of dreams,futuristic transportation, and they go off and reenact Sartre's play No Exit!Hell is other people seated comfortably in the Aramis car! And then theyreach the height of cruelty and ingratitude: here's technological prowessthat has given engineers hundreds of sleepless nights for ten years, thatmakes them quake with fright because it may not work, and the customerstake it for granted! Obviously it's automated and there are nonmaterialcouplings. Big deal! They have so much confidence in the RATP's technologicalproficiency that they don't even notice Aramis' new sophistication."Nobodv is enthusiastic in this business, that's for sure. Not the,supply or the demand, not the Communists or the right wing, not theIle-de-France Region or the City of Paris.""And yet they're signing on the dotted line. "[DOCUMENT]Protocol of agreemen t concerning tile real i;;ar:ion of theCenter tor Technological Experimentation and the approvalof the Arami s transportat i on system.Preamble :The study of the l'x am i s transportat ion system by the Matracompany ras been receiving support fer several yearsTrlE '984 DCCIS_IC_)_N _______________