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Report: the (Kantian) gap or formal difference between the idea of Socrates and Socrates in the flesh is what intervenes to make fetishes what they are. The fetishistic disavowal of “I know this is [x], but...” suspends the colorlessness of the real thing to submerge you into what paints it. This is the reason for those classic 4chan posts “I liked traps until I fucked one”: import these images out of coordinateless virtual space into the Local Grid and poof goes your lust: basically, there's a difference between Socrates in front of you right now and the idea of Socrates that doesn't actually pivot on that idea, but on something else, the way he traverses and is traversed by space: that is why Zizek's criticism of monks imagining a woman's insides falls so flat: the point isn't to flee from the yonic vortex but to always remember that surfaces coincide with depths, we're not talking just operant conditioning here so much as taking the form of form or – what's the same – the transcendental shape of shapelessness to neutralize the shadow play of the chora, your visual field is quite literally a cave wall in that it is only apparently three-dimensional, in truth being a plane that reduces bodies to consumable surfaces on its side: Cioran puts it this way: all your beliefs are “intrinsically shallow” because they are based in appearances; he wants to say “two-dimensional” but he isn't a quantum entangled hyperbrain piloting some schmuck named ______: photography skins your light alive (but those who, in the actual example of footbinding, prefer the revealed and deformed foot, odors and all, to its ceremonial skin, ie those who prefer the Grid to v-space, are Truly Lost...) ...