The phrase "acts of representation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing legal, artistic, or social actions where someone or something is representing another entity or idea.
Example: "The artist's work includes various acts of representation that challenge societal norms and provoke thought."
Alternatives: "representative actions" or "representational acts".
The self-reflexive film-about-film trope leads to valid questions about acts of memory and acts of representation.
"Representation" names a critical response to the second tradition that draws on aspects of the first, not only in thinking about whose interests may or may not be "represented," both politically and symbolically, in any given city; or about the institutions political or cultural through which such acts of representation occur; but also about the potential agency of those acts in shaping the polis.
In particular, it is important not to presume that all acts of representation are equally democratic.
After all, not all acts of representation within a representative democracy are necessarily instances of democratic representation.
Haugbolle admits that 'postwar testimonies are not textual guides to what happened but rather social acts of representation that often say more about their social situation than the actual past'.
For this piece I chose to ignore George Segal's figures, pretend they are not there and to give Lorde's words the power to represent communities that may have been rendered visible yet are continuously oppressed by failed acts of representation".
In other words, the material-objective distinction brings to light the internal relation between the idea as act of representation and the idea as representational content, a relation that is in fact not recognized in the formal-objective reality distinction.
This seminar will explore the uneasy relationship between people and works of art, in particular, what the willful destruction of images reveals about the act of representation itself.
Like performance, the making of architecture (and architecture itself) is a an act of representation that suggests a direct relationship to physical presence.
