The ambiguity is deliberate: destruction is absorbed into the very act of representing; painting and bombing become one and the same gesture.
At stake in both the artistic and the creative are ethical issues around representation, the act of representing (or not), and the ways in which the object produced (whether a mental image or plastic thing) does and does not manifest the non-object state to which it refers.
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.
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).
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".
Nonetheless, the larger threat that their acts of terror represent shouldn't be understated.
The UK did a better job of representing dance acts over a decade ago.
According to trend firm, TrendWatching.com, "random acts of kindness" represent a major consumer trend.
