Event overview
VC Public Programme lecture with Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic, moderated by Simon O' Sullivan
Involuntarily sucked into the forcefield of Cute, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic decided to let go, give in, let the demon ride them, and make an accelerationism out of it—only to realise that Cute opens a microcosmic gate onto the transcendental process of acceleration itself. Joining the swarming e-girls, t-girls, NEETS, anons, and otaku who rescued accelerationism from the double pincers of media panic and academic buzzkill by introducing it to big eyes, fluffy ears, programming socks, and silly memes, they discover that the objects of cute culture are just spinoffs of an accelerative process booping us from the future, rendering us all submissive, breedable, helpless, and cute in our turn. Cute comes tomorrow, and only anastrophe can make sense of what it will have been doing to us. Evading all discipline, sliding across all possible surfaces, Cute Accelerationism embraces every detail of the symptomatology, aetiology, epidemiology, history, biology, etymology, topology, and even embryology of Cute, joyfully burrowing down into its natural, cultural, sensory, sexual, subjective, erotic, and semiotic dimensions in order to sound out the latent spaces of this Thing that has soft-soaped its way into human culture.
Amy Ireland is a writer and theorist whose work focuses on gender and technology, and questions of human and machine agency in modernity. She is a member of the technomaterialist, transfeminist collective Laboria Cuboniks, whose Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (2018) has been translated into 18 languages.
Maya B. Kronic (she/her) is a writer, translator, and editor. She is the agent, patient, and product of ongoing research project on gender hyperstition and cute accelerationism. Maya has written and spoken on art and philosophy and has also worked with a number of artists developing cross-disciplinary projects, well as translating innumerable essays and various book-length works of French philosophy.
Free. No booking required.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Mar 2026 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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