Abstract
The most sustained and recent work on mechanism, organicism and organology can be found in Yuk Hui's Recursivity and Contingency (2019). Of interest to me in this paper is the concept of a general organology, first introduced by Georges Canguilhem to reverse the relationship between mechanism and organism by inscribing the mechanical within the organic, but without sacrificing a theory of technicity. More recently, Bernard Stiegler further developed organology, particularly as it relates to the exteriorisation of memory into digital artefacts and the temporal questions raised by such exosomatisation processes. Given that Hui's main argument is to theorise the organic—from which organicism and organology stem—in relation to recursivity and contingency, it seems curious that he does not develop the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in any meaningful way. At the very least, Deleuze's work on difference and repetition falls within the ambit of his ambition. In this paper I ask: " Do Deleuze and Guattari have an organology? " My aim is not simply to determine whether they do or not, but also to answer the secondary question, " Why does it matter? " since it would only be of interest if Deleuze and Guattari attenuate Canguilhem, Stiegler and Hui's accounts in a significant way.