Solipsism at essay length — the Wittgensteinian frame
echoes
From: The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress
- Early text: WM as "a kind of philosophical sci-fi" — "an
imaginative portrait of what it would be like actually to live in the sort of
world the logic and metaphysics of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus posit"; "This sort
of world started out, for Wittgenstein, to be logical heaven. It ends up being
(I opine) a metaphysical hell"; and the Investigations' turn, that "the
existence, nay the very idea of language depends on some sort of communicative
community". [the Tractatus/PI exposition] [e-text]
- IJ echo: The Wittgensteinian substrate the archive tracks in Wallace —
Broom of the System's overt Wittgenstein structure and, in IJ, the
solipsism/communication problematic and the map-vs-territory concerns (Eschaton;
the samizdat). This essay is the fullest statement of the frame; it is the
essay-length companion to the
wittgenstein-frame sighting promoted in
hf-raizman-call-it-something-i-ate.
- Weight: shared-preoccupation (philosophical substrate)