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

your time speaking? What you aspire to is not bearing the 'I.' On thecontrary, your dignity, your virtue, your glory, lie in being a 'one.' Andit is this silence, this happy anonymity, this depth, this heaviness, thishumanity, that we have denied you. I am speaking in your place, I amoffering you the awkward detour of a prosopopoeia, but it is preciselybecause you are dead forever. 'It' wanted to become not the subject ofour discourse, but the object, the tender anonymous object by meansof which we would travel in Paris. Is that so hard to understand? Itwanted the happy fate of VAL, its 'elder brother, ' as it naively put it.lt wanted to be silence, and thing, and object, and to spread throughoutits great, finally mute body the flow of our displacements. And you, bynot speaking more among yourselves, and I, by speaking so much ofit, have turned it forever into a being of reason, the pitiful hero ofan experimental novel. Neither autonomy nor independence. Thus, itdocs not exist, since it is speaking here, since it can speak through mymouth, instead of being over there on the boulevard Victor, a happything."And Norbert sat back down to stunned silence."Ahem, ahem, thank you very much, Professor H. , " coughed thepresiding official who had ordered the study. "I must say, it's a realnovel you've done for us. I suppose there are reactions, questions . . .Yes, M. Etienne?"The discussion lasted until I was asked to present, more prosaically,the practical solutions that we had agreed to recommend to theRATP.last time.a novel."At the end of my internship, in June 1988, I met Norbert for the"What are you going to do now?" I asked him."I'd really like to publish that story, since everybody tells me it's"But it's unpublishablc! What about confidentiality? And besides,you didn't find the solution; you weren't able to prove that if you'ddone the study five vears earlier vou would have seen the flaw and savedJJmillions."E PI LOGU E•