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

etween us had evaporated with Norbert's stubborn insistence onclinging to a relativist sociology that made him, as I saw it, relinquishthe prey for a shadow.[DOCUMENT]Sp eech by Charles Fi terman, Transportation Minister:THUS THE CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTAT ION OF THEARAMIS SYSTEM IS ABOUT TO SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY .THIS IS ALL THE MORE GRAT IFYING IN THAT THE PROJECT , WHICHTOOK ITS FIRST STEPS FOURTEEN YEARS AGO , GOT SOMEWHAT-LET USSAY-SLOWED DOWN ALONG T HE WAY, AND THAT IT WAS ADVI SABLE TOMAKE A DECISION WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY BY BRINGING TOGETHERTHE NECESSARY PARTNERS .EVERYONE HERE KNOWS THAT I HAVE WORKED STEAD I:UY TOWARDTHIS GOAL FOR THREE YEARS . AND THAT IS WHY, BEFORE ANYTHINGELSE , ON BEHALF OF THE ADMINISTRAT ION, I WOT..:LD LIKE TO THANKEVERYONE WHO HAS CONTRIBUTE D TO PREPARING THE WAY FOR THESTAGE THAT WE ARE ABOUT TO REACH TODAY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OFTHIS SYSTEM AND ITS FULL-SCALE TRIAL . FIRST, THE MATRA COM­PANY, WHICH TOOK THE INITIATIVE FOR THIS PROJECT AND UNDER­TOOK THE FIRST TECHNOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE EARLY1970S, AND WHICH TODAY PUTS ITS IMPRESSIVE TECHNOLOGICALCOMPETENCE INTO THE "HOPPER" OF THIS PROTOCOL, ALONG WITH AFINANC IAL CONTRIBUTION; NEXT, THE RATP , WHICH HAD THE CON­TRACTING AUTHORITY IN THE NAME OF THE STATE, START ING ABOUT1974, FOR A PROGRAM OF EXPERIMENTATION AND RE?INEMENT OF THEARAMIS SYSTEM; ESPECIALLY IN RECENT YEARS , THE RATP HASSHOI'lN A VIGOROUS DETERMINATION TO Jv'OVE THE PROGRAM AHEAD ,BRINGING A FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION ALONG W ITH ITS OWN EX?ER­TISE .AND FINALLY , 7HE LE-DE-FRANCE REGION AND ITS PRESIDENT,M. GIRAUD , SINCE THE ARAMIS SYSTEM' S CENTER FOR EXPERI!'1ENTA­TION IS TO BE LOCATED IN THE ILE-DE-FRANCE , SOUTH OF PARIS,BETWEEN BA-'"ARD PLACE AND THE BOULEVARD VICTOR, AND SIC0CE THEREGION WAS WILLING TO AGREE TO BICLUCE THE CONSTRUCTION OFTHIS CENTER IN THE CONTRACT OF THE P :::"AN ftJ ORKED OUT B:O:TI'IEENTrl E1 9 84 DECISION