Activity

Unlike Pynchon, however, Wallace does not wish to dump the legacy of Calvinism; he seeks to build fictions around work and the fervent call to work, an activity he recurrently sees not just in terms of the labor theory of value but, through the lens of Hegel, as the only way of creating a fully viable self.

attempts a fusion of semiotic, economic, and psychoanalytic systems

a textbook petitio principii

My third and most important philosophical guidepost on value is axiology

in this essay that led him into the writing of Infinite Jest lies an allegorical ars poetica