The phrase "act of representing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the process or action of depicting, symbolizing, or standing in for something or someone.
Example: "The act of representing diverse cultures in literature enriches our understanding of the world."
Alternatives: "process of representation" or "representation action".
The ambiguity is deliberate: destruction is absorbed into the very act of representing; painting and bombing become one and the same gesture.
Batteux notes that opera is "the act of representing a marvelous action.
All spatial and temporal differences, such as right and left, or earlier and later, lie in the representation, not in the act of representing (SW VI: 87).
One is to suggest that the subject (the thinking self, the I) that Descartes concludes exists is something more than just the act of representing objects; so we can't go from representation to a thinker.
On Herbart's view, rather than thinking of Vorstellungen as static, image-like things or products of an antecedent act of representing,[12] we should instead think of them as individual conscious activities, i.e., atomic represent-ings.[13] Thus he can speak of the representation's "activity" persisting even when its "effect"—i.e., my awareness of it—"is held back by something alien to it".
The way in which one becomes conscious of an act of representing is not by receiving intuitions but by doing it: "synthesis …, as an act, … is conscious to itself, even without sensibility" (B153); "… this representation is an act of spontaneity, that is, it cannot be regarded as belonging to sensibility" (B132).
These theorists will hold that one can be directly conscious of one's own acts of representing, yet they could still hold that these acts have an NEP structure.
The UK did a better job of representing dance acts over a decade ago.
In fact, it has acquired the "design act" as a way of representing the fact that this previously little-known piece of typography has become incredibly important in the information age.
According to trend firm, TrendWatching.com, "random acts of kindness" represent a major consumer trend.
For Blanca these acts of thievery represent a mastery of fear, and we find ourselves applauding crimes that pave the way toward a much graver one.
