Phenomenology and/or objects of exchange

This paper begins with explaining my diagram titled 'An interpretation of how Phenomenology and DNA meet in the cultural prosthetic in Bernard Stiegler’s ‘Technics and Time’'. It continues through anecdotally recalling an experience I had as a tutor with an art student and then develops two positions concerning the ontology of artworks that are stimulated by Mario Perniola's 'Art and its Shadow' (2004). These positions are then extrapolated into the dynamic of arts education and the proposition of a methodology peculiar to art. A methodology that attempts to negotiate the valorisation of artworks as artifacts and the valorisation of artworks as social processes of mediation. This duality is resolved in the question of the incorporation of the inorganic artefact, a process that produces viscosity in the inorganic and retards social processes.