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Having read through this magazine I…
Having read through this magazine I admit t being perplexed as to what the editor is trying to achieve. I found texts were confusing, they were without measured cohesiveness and misleading statements given as authoritative. I make a small example of the section reference to Numbers (page 122) . Firstly, I make issue that Numbers are Not Material and that they are an abstract. On Page 127, the writer makes a statement, "Perception...out reaches sensation" (with ref to figure 4.) I respond saying that the theory of body is already a theory of perception (ref Maurice Merleau Ponty- The Phenomonology of Perception) Merlaeu Ponty also speaks of "double sensations" (ref p.106) The writer goes on to reference Kant where he attempts to speak abut aesthetic pleasure - this whole paragraph is simply full of Kantian reference to aesthetic judgement and little to mathematics and number. He then goes straight onto write about painting and representational art in relationship to Kantian thinking. The writing is in my opinion simply incoherent..What are you trying to say? Then their is a throw away phrase, "What then are we to make of abstraction?".in my view a throw away phrase with little thought attached. If the writer did exercise more in depth thinking he/she would see that Kant does in fact put forward a structure of the mind which he argued to be necessary a priori requirement for cognition, or experience of the world of objects. (ref Kants Critique of Pure Reason argument s38) There are already set standards for each painting set by the artist and a diversity of clues that allow the viewer not only to see into the picture but what it represents. Dear Editor/Writer, I wish you would clearly follow up statements you make in your articles. I would like to reference Barthes when he say's that, " text is a tissue of quotations drawn from innumerable centres and entering into mutual relations of dialogue, parody, contestation- but there is one place where this multiplicity is focused and that is with the reader". On this note I make closure here. Of course this review is simply in my opinion and all is opinion. Kind Regards - a reader.