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9780674043237
Aramis or the Love of Technology
by Latour, Bruno, Porter, Catherine
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- Comments: Bruno Latour has written a unique and wonderful tale of a technological dream gone wrong. The story of the birth and death of Aramis-the guided-transportation system intended for Paris-is told in this thought-provoking and fictional account by several different parties: an engineer and his professor; company executives and elected officials; a sociologist; and finally Aramis itself, who delivers a passionate plea on behalf of technological innovations that risk being abandoned by their makers. As the young
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- ISBN-13: 9780674043237
- ISBN: 0674043235
- Publication Date: 1996
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
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"Here is an eminently readable book--even on occasions a ripping good yarn. [Latour]...has set out to...create a new genre...by fusing together the novel, the bureaucratic dossier and the sociological commentary. The result is a hypertext, weaving real and fictional characters together against the backdrop of an actual project carried out by RATP, the public transport authority for Paris...One of the most charming aspects of this book is that you come to care what happens to an automated train."Latour, Bruno is the author of 'Aramis or the Love of Technology', published 1996 under ISBN 9780674043237 and ISBN 0674043235.
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