The article examines the phenomenon of cognitive practice in the context of the transition from conceptual thinking to the possibility of representation, which creates a new reality different from the actual surrounding world. It is noted that philosophizing forms the object of research — the evidence of the immediately given. In the historical and cultural context, the transitional state of cognitive practice is transmitted through the state of consciousness “doubt”, which creates the duality of human existence. It is proved that the properties of modern cognitive practice are phenomenalization and theatricalization as forms of existence of scientific knowledge. The relationship between the subject and the phenomenon as a source of the meaning of representation is problematized. They can create, in one case, illusions, in another — works of the human mind, which become tools in research. If the first and second coincide, philosophizing is attributed to artistry. However, phenomenalization in representation presupposes a specific phenomenon of illusion that does not have a linearrepresentation. Spectacle as movement and mutual absorption of images leads to the theatricalization of perception based on theatricalization. The initial scene is created by the perception and
purification of what is happening to the immediate initial event, and the object of attention that manifests itself in perception develops into an event for the existential existence of a person.
For citation: Volkova V.O., Volkov I.E. Cognitive practice: from concept to representation, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2025, iss. 1, pp. 132—139.