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

SHI LLY- SHALLYI NGIN THE SEVENTIES"We're making progress, my friend-we're crossing suspects ofTour list one after another. The cause of death can't be located in thefinal months; that much we've known all along. According to all thewitnesses, it was inscribed in the nature of things. We know it can't befound in the initial idea, which everybody was excited about. We alsoknow that it can't be found in the Orly phase, which went pretty well,all things considered, since it didn't commit the project to go in oneparticular direction or another. So let's move on to the other suspectphases.""There's at least one point on which everybody agrees," I said,consulting the files. "After Orly, there was a period of shilly-shallying"stop and go," they called it in Frenglish. You can see it in the chartof annual expenditures. Here: this goes from 1972 to 1987. I've markedwhere we are in black" [see Figure 1 in Chapter I]."You should have added the cost of our postmortem study in1988.""It's such a trivial amount, in comparison; it'd be invisible-a thinline at best.""Yes, but if we'd done it five years earlier, they would have saveda small fortune!"We have to overlook my boss's weakness for thinking he's usefuland efficient, even though he himself of course criticizes other people'snotions of usefulness and efficiency . . .