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

My list went from the clearest points to the most opaque. Fromlightest to darkest. From most open to most secret. And not a singleelement was stable. Either Aramis really existed and it had been killed(the elected officials, the Budget Office, the politicians had killed it;there really had been murder, blindness, obscurantism), or else, at theother extreme, Aramis had never existed: it had remained inconceivablesince 1981, and a different crime had been committed by a differentsort of blindness, another obscurantism; for years on end they'd beendrawing funds for nothing- -a pure loss. In the first case, I was explainingAramis' unjust death in 1987; in the second, I was explaining Aramis'unjustified reprise in 1984. But there's the rub : I couldn't explain themboth at once, and I couldn't choose one over the other. Norbert wasright: I was like Buridan's donkey; I was going around in circles,indignant at having to do my professor's work, but furious at beingunable-me, an engineer! to pull it off bctter than he could.While I was rereading, for the tenth time, the report on the endof the CET from October 1987, I finally found the hidden staircase."Good Lord, but of course ! That's it!" I exclaimed, just like HerculePoirot.[DOCUMENT: DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTOMATED COMPONENTS OFTHE ARAMIS SYSTEM; MATRA, OCTOBER 15, 1987; ORIGINAL EMPHASIS]2.1. Bas ic Principles of the Arami s SystemThe principle of trains of v ariable length makes it possible:-t o adapt the length of the train easily to the demand fortransportat ion . It is possible to retain a high quality ofservice during slack periods b y means of short trains usedat intervals that remain brief;-to exploit a network with mu ltiple origins and destinationswit.hout req'J i ri ng passengers to transfer, as thetrains demerge and merge on both sides of Lhe switchingpoints; this type o f operation makes it possible, in particular,to retain brief interva :1. s on the various branchesA R !\ tv'. I S I S REA D Y r 0 G O (JAI.\WAl:Yl: --JI&I&I.I-_