Maya B. Kronic & Amy Ireland

In this A/V performance based around the book Cute Accelerationism, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic will explore the symptomatology, aetiology, epidemiology, history, biology, etymology, topology, and even embryology of Cute, 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 an irresistible hold on contemporary culture.

Maya B. Kronic is the agent, patient, and product of an ongoing research project on hyperstition, gender accelerationism, and cuteness. They are head of R&D at the UK publisher Urbanomic, co-author, with Amy Ireland, of Cute Accelerationism, and author of numerous texts on philosophy, music, and contemporary art as well as a prolific translator of philosophical works.

Amy Ireland is a key member of technomaterialist transfeminist collective Laboria Cuboniks (best known for their 2015 text ‘Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation’). She is an editor and translator at Urbanomic. Before Cute Accelerationism, Ireland penned the foreword to Gruppo di Nun’s ‘anthology of occult resistance’ Revolutionary Demonology.