ion as a Plan of Action: Artificial Intelligence After the War, the idea of mathematics given corporeal expression remained alive for Konrad Zuse. Finding himself without access to his former material resources, he designed the concept of a programming language and envisioned, as did Alan Turing, an ‘artificial intelligence.’ For Zuse this was the continuation and consummation of a notion of ab...

In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature. The problem seems to be that Nabokov's works are not susceptible to the kind of varying interpretations favored by the Norton's editors, although in practice,...

Nietzsche's ethics is basically an ethics of virtue. In his own unique way, and in accordance with his extra-moral view of life, Nietzsche recovers and re-appropriates certain virtues – notably pagan, aristocratic virtues – as part of his project to reconceptualise (‘rehabilitate’) the virtues in terms of virtù (virtuosity and vitality), to which he also refers as his ‘moraline-free’ conception...