Latour interview @ Figure/Ground

the folks at Figure/Ground are back in action (note their new @) and the interview is worth reading (also check out the reading group @ http://aimegroup.wordpress.com/) a key section from the action-able-oriented interests of this blog is:

“Object-oriented philosophy is philosophy, and it’s an interesting movement but it is not contributing much to field work, and I’m interested in concepts only if they allow us to do something different to register field work. So far I am not aware of empirical field studies which have been influenced or at least clearly influenced by this philosophical movement. But that might come, and it will be probably good.”

maybe it will come and maybe it will be good but the proof as they say will be in the pudding. While one can see how fleshing out more of the interests/factors at play in any project could help to be more representative (in the sense of being more complete) I have yet to see a workable accounting of how this would play out in an actual meeting (or other scene/event of co-operation) like of an environmental impact study-group, let alone a public hearing or an actual in the field bit of engineering, who will speak for the trees in a democracy of objects?