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245		0	_aAramis, or The Love of Technology/ _cBruno Latour (Author), Catherine Porter (Translator)
260			_bHarvard University Press; _c1996
300			_a336p; _c23x15cm
520			_aBruno Latour has written a unique and wonderful tale of a technological dream gone wrong. The story of the birth and death of Aramis (in 1987)―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 engineer and professor follow Aramis’s 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. This charming and profound book, part novel and part sociological study, is Latour at his thought-provoking best.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aHE1001-5600 Transportation and communications- Railroads. Rapid transit systems _96998
650			_aMass transit _96999
651			_aFrance _zParis _97000
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