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

of the world system to be sure, but freely, without touching each otherand without being the slaves of any automated mechanisms. Oh, whata beautiful construct! How much worthier of inspiring piety in theatheist's hardened heart than the fatum mahometanum, the predestinedworld you depict! ""You're getting pretty hot under the collar, my son. I detect verylittle piety in the culpable passion that makes you want to create livingcreatures yourself. ""Forgive me, Father, I did get carried away, but the questions offreedom and predestination are ones I care deeply about. ""Where is this chapter on the preaffectation of stations?""Oh-sorry, Lamoureux, I was thinking about grace. ""Grace? ""I mean that you can't let passengers decide for themselves wherethey're going. The central system has to decide for them. ""There's still a problem, though," I said as we left Berger's office."Obviously, the Orly track is only t ,200 meters long, and the bolts docome loose, but still, the three vehicles really exist, and they get theirbearings from each other by means of optical sensors, and the couplingsare calculated. Why doesn't the story end at Orly," I asked, mystified,"since Aramis is feasible? Why do we have to raise the question of itsexistence fourteen years after the fact, if it was already completed int 973? What's more, some of our interviewees didn't even mention Orlv.JFor them, the story started in 1984!""That part doesn't bother me too much. The body of a technologicalobject is made up of envelopes, layers, successive strips. Aproject never stops becoming real. It's normal for people just comingon board to be ignorant or scornful of the past. What bothers me themost, you're right, is the impression that we're losing in terms of reality.Things happened at Orly that no longer look feasible fifteen years later.The old guys like Lamoureux and Cohen were ahead of the technicianslike Freque and Parlat, who came later. That's much less common."IS ARAMIS FEASIBLE?