ABSTRACT
Organizations are the creators, owners, carriers and suppliers of bricks of meaning with which we build our known-world, the objects and decorations with which we adorn our secluded garden and the canals through which we communicate and exchange with other humans. The individual no longer suffices as the explanatory entity of social and economic change. Individuals are tossed about by these organizational waves, their memberships and attachments sometimes submerged and other times breaching, at times tethered to other known-worlds and at other times set adrift as isolated islands. Social change cannot occur without recourse to formal organizations, without individuals who undertake a reprise of the world and thereby instantiate new logics of action through their rejuvenated organizational memberships and attachments. Orgology assumes that we are all exquisite corpses of our organizational memberships and attachments. Organizations are vectors of the association between foreign viewpoints, of the bricolage of discrete logics of action; they are the hinges of economic and cultural change.
