Bruno Latour: Aramis, or The Love of Technology (1993/1996)

3 August 2009, dusan

Bruno Latour has written a unique and wonderful tale of a technological dream gone wrong. As the young engineer and professor follow Aramis’ trail–conducting interviews, analyzing documents, assessing the evidence–perspectives keep shifting: the truth is revealed as multilayered, unascertainable, comprising an array of possibilities worthy of Rashomon. The reader is eventually led to see the project from the point of view of Aramis, and along the way gains insight into the relationship between human beings and their technological creations. This charming and profound book, part novel and part sociological study, is Latour at his thought-provoking best.

Translated by Catherine Porter
Published by Harvard University Press
April 1996
ISBN 0674043227, 9780674043220
336 pages

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