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

assembly line? You said "transfer"? Well, well! Could the unconscious befull of machines as well as affects? The entire Paris metro system-in fact,all the transportation systems of the world-find themselves brought togetherin an eighty-one-box chart on DATAR's table. Dreams change thescale of phenomena, as we know: they allow new combinations and theymix up properties. So: an engineer's dream?"Well, my dear Watson, what do you think? It is all perfectlyclear? ""Certainly," 1 said, a bit uneasy to be feeling so sure of myself."Of course, 1 don't know much about it, but Aramis is an engineer'stoy, one of those far-fetched ideas that didn't grow out of a needsanalysis. That much is obvious right away.""Wrong, as usual ," Norbert replied amiably. "On the contrary, itwas to avoid far-fetched inventions like those the Lepine compf'titionproduces that Petit and Bardet drew up their matrix. I questioned thedirector of SOFRETU, and he confirmed Petit's account point forpoint."From a grimy little notebook, Norbert extracted his interviewnotes.[INTERVIEW EXCERPTS]The director of SOFRETU:"I'm not starting with inventions or components; no more brilliant andunworkable ideas. I'm starting with passengers, with their real needs, with uses.The ideal, for passengers, is what? It's not to think, not to slow down, not tostop, not to transfer, and to arrive at their destination nevertheless. That'spoint·to·point transportation. That's Aromis." [no. 18]"I even came across a document by Bardet from 1969 or 1970.You know what he says?"AN FXCITING INNOVAT ION