Vortrag „These violent delights have violent ends“ von Doreen Mende

In the science fiction series Westworld, the inventors of the theme park hide a code in the "Hosts" (android "hosts") that empowers the hosts to remember versions of their earlier existence. It is triggered by a photograph from the real outside world, which the hosts should actually not be able to perceive. When the constructed father of Dolores, one of the android residents of the theme park, sees it nonetheless, she causes a glitch, and he whispers to his android daughter the sentence "These violent delights have violent ends". Although the hosts' data is supposed to be deleted with each run, this trigger code opens a portal to what the deletion command does not reach: Dolores remembers and becomes aware of her own story.