History
Bruno Latour
Aramis
oder Die Liebe zur Technik
Mit einem neuen Vorwort v. Bruno Latour und einem Nachwort v. Henning Schmidgen
Übers. v. Gustav Roßler
[Aramis, or the Love of Technology.]
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Published in German.
Based on numerous interviews, technical reports and documentation, Bruno Latour traces the collapse of a large public transportation system project – the Personal Rapid Transit system named Aramis – in Paris. Latour's analysis of Aramis' history merges science and technology studies with the narrative form of a detective novel. The various actors in this story of a highly complex human-object-system – engineers, circuit layouts, engines, prototypes, rail track systems etc. – are all given an equal voice in a way that is of exemplary value for understanding the Actor-network theory. With the first German translation of this now classical study, the book series Historische Wissensforschung (Studies in the History of Knowledge) launches its series »Under the Radar«, which presents and contextualizes forgotten or hard-to-reach texts from the history of science.