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

ARAMIS AT TH E CET STAGE:WILL IT KEEP ITS PROMISES?"I don't get it, Norbert, I don't see what you 're doing," I confessed,feeling both angry and disappointed. "We know that the key tothe puzzle lies in the phase between 1981 and 1984. We 're findingsplendid guilty parties: the three-and-a-half-year delay, the fact that theproject was maintained unchanged even though the World's Fair hadbeen abandoned, the complete ambiguity of the decisions, the screeningrole played by the technocrats, the postponement of all the problemsto the CET stage, the signing of the protocol by a government ministerwho stepped down three days later, and-poof-you wave your wandand pronounce everyone innocent; you decree that there's no basis forbringing suit; you send off all the accused parties with kind words, youtell them they're great; you claim they wouldn't have done anythingdifferently if the project had been, in the last analysis, a completesuccess. "(Silence on the part of my beloved professor. )"In my opinion, you're simply too chicken to blame people whohave ways to get even. If you want to know what I think, your'hyperrefined sociology' is a pretty flimsy affair.""Except, in spite of everything, it isn't a political project," Norbertreplied, more uncomfortable than I expected. "It's a technologicalproject. And after all, it's a fact that we haven't yet seen any crucialdefects on the side of the people involved, or in the way things wereorganized, in the decisionmaking process-in the social arena, as you'd