transpire into
1. Does "specularised other" mean something like "the reflected (mirrored) other"?

2. Does "transpires into" mean "entering and penetrating into"?

Context:
Speaking ‘pidgin-nigger’ closes off the black man’s subjectivity and fixes him as a specularised other, who easily transpires into a fetish object that shores up the white man’s delusional superiority and supports his fantasies of erotic domination.

Question

transpire into
1. Does "specularised other" mean something like "the reflected (mirrored) other"?

2. Does "transpires into" mean "entering and penetrating into"?

Context:
Speaking ‘pidgin-nigger’ closes off the black man’s subjectivity and fixes him as a specularised other, who easily transpires into a fetish object that shores up the white man’s delusional superiority and supports his fantasies of erotic domination.

Answer

1) No, it means that "the black man" becomes an imagined other person as opposed to being an individual
2) No, it means something much closer to "is turned into"

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