With response to the problem delineated in this fashion, the possibility contained in the term "
organology" may suggest itself as a tentative solution, if it is taken to refer to an organ or organic function not only as an object, but as the source of a certain intelligibility and intelligence.
Comparative
Organology In Applied Veterinary Histology, Second Edition; pp.543 - 544, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, London.
Principles of Comparative Anatomy of Invertebrates:
Organology. University of Chicago Press.
The essay writers come from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and areas of expertise, including historiography,
organology, ethnography, and criticism, among others.
Paper, $35.00--In the three parts (Toward
Organology; Romantic
Organology: Toward a Technological Metaphysics of Judgment; and After
Organology) of his impressive nine-chapter volume, Weatherby opens a new conversation about what is at stake philosophically in discussions of knowledge and life.
Embryogenesis, histology and
organology of the ovary of Brevoortia patronus.
They explore the development of a new ecological form of rationality in architecture through computational logic, ecological constructivism and the concept of an ecology of separation, the concept of general
organology, the bifurcation of nature, the ecological materiality of technology in terms of a critique of media and technology, the conceptualization of planetary immunity in the Gaia discourse, biopolitical thought and bioart, the ecology of communion and contagion, ecology and metafiction, ecology and cybernetics, thinking of ecological beings as spectral, a theory of devastation in terms of ecology, and a theory of value as a component of ecology.
In the 1980s, I formed a team to do an
organology project because so many early evolutionist studies and even late twentieth-century textbooks offered dismissive representations of Inuit and First Nations music as just drums and rattles.
Stiegler's contribution to technocultural studies, on the other hand, is to describe something which he calls a 'general
organology', understood in Simondonian terms as the co-individuation of the human, technical and social.
Grounding his assessment in late-Romantic style theory, he wrote that Macaulay "set his stamp" upon "style in its widest sense, not merely on the grammar and mechanism of writing, but on what De Quincey described as its
organology, style, that is to say, in its relation to ideas and feelings, its commerce with thought, and its reaction on what one may call the temper or conscience of the intellect" (77; emphasis in original).
Gall was careless about experimental control when seeking correlational evidence for faculties in relation to his human subjects' cranial bumps and depressions, and the "science" that soon became known as "phrenology" (a term Gall eschewed while favoring terms such as "craniology" or "
organology") was soon denounced (Krech, 1964).