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

"Are they interested in elected officials, in what they think?""No, you can't expect too much from them. They're dragged intoit only during the final months, and they aren't happy.""Do they take into account the skeptics at Matra or at the RATP?""No, not at all.""Well then, there you have it, Norbert! They don't discuss it. Theydon't know what research is. They think it amounts to throwing moneyout the "vindow! While everything is shifting around inside the Aramismobile unit, outside everything is carved in stone. They don't renegotiate.The only one who explicitly accepts research as such is an electedofficial who has nothing to say!""I'm beginning to understand. Yes, yes, there really is love intechnologies. Poor Habermas! For a minute there I almost agreed withhim. That's where the formal defect was, the sin, the crime-right inthis chart. Your chart. They didn't make Aramis a research project. Theydidn't love it. You've saved me."We hugged each other."But then we have to understand," he continued, as excited nowas I, "whether our interlocutors actually do hate research. We have togo back to the interview transcripts."[INTERVIEW EXCERPTS]M. Piebeau, technical advisor at the TiDnsportation Ministry:"Were there warning signals during the course of the efT? Did you havethe impression that it wasn 't working?""Zero. Not a word, not a single red light. Well, all right, the time frameswere slipping; but after all, that's already pretly normal in industry, so what canyou expect in state-of-the-art research? Everybody thought things were goingqUite well."Except of course from the operational standpoint. When the report onoperations came out, then people started asking questions. They noticed thatmanaging 600 pairs of cars was not so simple; just getting them cleaned wasa real problem."You talk about 'state-of-the-art research, ' but, excuse me, the research part