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Throughout the essay the terms ‘pornography’ and ‘philosophy’ are rendered synonymous in the sense that philosophy exhibits a pornographic character, a unique way of looking into the thing itself otherwise declared by Kant to be beyond representation. But, by going where Kant hesitated to go, we claim that it is rather the goal of pornography in the last instance to extract the thing itself against his insistence that there is only one way we can reach the unfathomable without incurring self-contradiction. In this paper, we are assigning this illicit thing-in-itself the equivalent of the fourth term that we are deploying against the third term of the so-called argument of correlationism (which Kant is said to have ushered in Western thought) where subject and object, existing in a relation of co-dependence, is covertly supervised by a third term, the other half of the subject which splits itself in two (subject and object). The third term is no less the moral subject which guarantees the relation of codependence against which we propose the fourth term (or simply, the fourth) as a figure of diverse modalities of becoming. And as this may surprise if not repel the ultra-moderns among us, we also contend that as early as Plato the ‘fourth’ is already in place within the tradition of philosophy though at most, and even today, deemed practically unrealizable.

Battle of Pornography: Philosophy and the Fate of the Absolute