The Queen of the Dream maps reality of British politics into a world of dream and tries to debate a relationship between old political regimes and established technocracies. Deep machine learning has gained a substantial media attention. Most recently, defeating top human players in an ancient game Go revived fears of the creeping end of human supremacy. However, at the other end of the spectrum, a pop culture is remaking the Sixties as a result of Google’s Deep Dream. Hippy aestheticism of images dreamed by machines obscures the fact that the very technologies are essential for ruling classes to maintain the current power balance. Cognitive technologies are a steam engine of the present, not blotters of LSD. As for that, The Queen of the Dream restores a counter- cultural potential of hallucinations.

Acknowledgement: For the purpose of a non-commercial research, data mining and criticism the work utilises a fair amount of “State Opening of Parliament 2015” by UK Parliament (Standard YouTube Licence)