Aramis

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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. Written like a detective novel, Latour's "scientifiction" analyses the failure of this project in a way exemplary for the Actor-network theory (ANT).
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.

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Henning Schmidgen
Studium der Psychologie, Philosophie und Linguistik; 1996 Promotion in Psychologie, 2011 Habilitation für Medienwissenschaft und Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Gastprofessuren an der Harvard University und der Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; seit 2014 Professor für die Theorie medialer Welten an der Bauhaus Universität Weimar.

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Science and Technology Studies Wissenschaftssoziologie Verkehrstechnologie Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte

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