Aramis, or the Love of Technology

Aramis, or the Love of Technology was written by French sociologist/anthropologist Bruno Latour.

Aramis was originally published in French in 1993; the English translation by Catherine Porter, copyrighted in 1996, ISBN 978-0-674-04323-7, is now in its fourth printing (2002).

The genre includes voices of a young engineer discussing his "sociotechnological initiation," his professor's commentary which introduces Actor-network theory (ANT), field documents - including real-life interviews, and the voice of Aramis—a failed technology ([1] p. x).

Aramis was supposed to be implemented as a Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system in Paris.

Simultaneously, while investigating Aramis's demise, Latour delineates the tenets of Actor-network theory.