Computing building.
That’s where all the computational power is, Driss says. The Organisational Management Brain.
Evil AI, like in every science fiction film, I say.
Alphaville’s the best, Driss says. With the Alpha-60 that outlaws free thought. Bans all creative expression. And interrogates all those who show emotion, before killing them. In swimming pools, strangely, with all these synchronised swimmers …
There’s this great interrogation scene, Driss says. They haul Lemmy Caution in – he’s this hardboiled detective type. What transforms night into day? Alpha-60 asks him. Poetry, he says. What is your religion? I believe in the immediate inspirations of my conscience, he says. What is the privilege of the dead? he’s asked. To die no longer, he says.
Poetic questions, for a computer, Sophia says.
Caution quotes from Eluard, Driss says. The Capital of Pain. And tries to make Anna Karina’s character tell him she loves him. Love is totally banned, you see.
Does love destroy the supercomputer? Sophia asks. Does love win in the end?
They escape, Driss says. They drive off into the outer realms.
That’s what we have to do: fall in love and escape, I say. To die no longer …
Do you think organisational managers approve of love? Io asks. Do they know what it is?
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