Logic, Modern Literature and Artificial Intelligence

Rachel Falconer is Professor of Modern English Literature and Head of Department at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.Sangam MacDuff is a Research Fellow at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

• IntroductionSangam MacDuff (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)Part I: Victorian and Modernist Logic1. Victorian Equations:The Logic of Exchange in Nineteenth-Century EnglandAndrea Kelly Henderson (UC Irvine, USA)2. Not as a Logician: Victoria Welby and Susan Howe read C.S. PeirceHelen Thaventhiran (University of Cambridge, UK)3. On Not Being Made of Literature: Franz Kafka and the Logical Priority of LifePatrick Jones (University of Geneva, Switzerland)4. ‘that flame… that flame… that burns away filthy logic’: Samuel Beckett and the Aporias of DigitalityBalazs Rapcsak (University of Basel, Switzerland)5. Logic and its Other in the Modernist Architectural ManifestoDavid Spurr (University of Geneva, Switzerland)Part II: Postmodern Developments6. I.A. Richards and CyberneticsSimon Swift (University of Geneva, Switzerland)7. Entrenchment Versus Indeterminacy: Disposing of gavagai, quaddition and grueIan MacKenzie (University of Geneva, Switzerland)8. Logic and Life: On Robert Besson’s L’ArgentRobert B. Pippin (University of Chicago, USA)9. The Illogic of Fiction: Speculative Reflections on Abduction, Naturalization, and Signification in NarrativeSimona Bartolotta (University of Oxford, UK)10. The Logic of the Clinamen in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: Swerving across Light Materiality, Utopia, and Queer PoeticsAlberto Tondello (University of Edinburgh, UK)Part III: Artificial Intelligence and Posthumanism11. How a Picture No-Longer Held us Captive: Playful Logics and Creativity Across MediaDorothy Butchard and Niall Gallen (University of Birmingham, UK)12. Talking Machines, Missing Secretaries, and Bad ReadersRebecca Roach (University of Birmingham, UK)13. Reading Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun with AI: What Does ChatGPT Think Makes Humans Unique?Megan Quigley (Villanova University, USA)14. The Interplay Between the Anthropomorphism of Automata and the Mechanisation of Humanity as Represented in Contemporary CinemaJannik Küchen (University of Tübingen, Germany) and Diogo Sasdelli (Danube University. Austria)Index