FORMS OF LIFE

WITTGENSTEIN SAID THINGS LIKE 'A LANGUAGE GAME DETERMINES A FORM OF LIFE, SO TO SPEAK'.

MARX, IN A VASTLY DIFFERENT, BUT LOOSELY RELATED, CONTEXT, HAD SAID 'MODE OF PRODUCTION DETERMINES FORM OF LIFE'.

EACH, IN ITS SURROUNDING CIRCUMSTANCES, WAS AN 'INTRA-CIVILIZATIONAL REMARK'.

MODE OF PRODUCTION ITSELF CAN NOW BE SEEN AS AN 'ARCANE' TERM, UNLESS GIVEN A SUBSTANTIALLY BROADER READING THAN MARX'S.

WHAT CONNECTIONS, DISTINCTIONS, IRRELEVANCIES, CAN BE DISCERNED, BETWEEN LANGUAGE GAMES AND MODES OF PRODUCTION?

IN SOME CONTEXTS, ONE MIGHT SAY THAT A LANGUAGE GAME AND A MODE OF PRODUCTION ARE SIDES OF A COIN, BUT THIS WOULD BE 'OVERLY REDUCTIONISTIC' IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.