Cute Accelerationism

Ireland, Amy, Kronic, Maya B.

  • 出版商: Urbanomic
  • 出版日期: 2024-05-07
  • 售價: $960
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$912
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 232
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1915103150
  • ISBN-13: 9781915103154
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商品描述

An impassioned philosophical celebration of the multiple dimensions of contemporary cuteness.

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 realize 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.

Traversing tangents on natural and unnatural selection, runaway supernormalisation, the collective self-transformation of genderswarming cuties, the hyperstitional cultures of shojo and otaku, denpa and 2D love, and the cute subworlds of aegyo and meng, moé and flatmaxxing, catboys and dogon eggs, bobbles and gummies, vore machines and partial objects, BwOs and UwUs...glomping, snuggling, smooshing and squeeeeing their way toward the event horizon of Cute, donning cat ears and popping bubbles as they go, in this untimely philosophical intensification of an omnipresent phenomenon, having surrendered to the squishiest demonic possession, like, ever, two bffs set out in search of the transcendental shape of cuteness only to realize that, even though it is all around us, we do not yet know what Cute can do.

Seriously superficial and bafflingly coherent, half erudite philosophical treatise, half dariacore mashup, 100 percent cutagion, this compact lil' textual machine is a meltdown and a glow up, as well as a twizzled homage to Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. Welcome to the kawaiizome: nothing uncute makes it out of the near future, and the cute will very soon no longer be even remotely human.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本對當代可愛多重層面的哲學熱情慶祝。被可愛的力場無意間吸引,Amy Ireland和Maya B. Kronic決定放手一搏,讓惡魔操控他們,並將其轉化為一種加速主義,只是後來他們意識到,可愛打開了一個微觀的門,通向加速本身的超驗過程。加入了一群群聚集的電子女孩、變性女孩、NEETS、匿名者和御宅族,他們通過引入大眼睛、蓬鬆耳朵、程式設計襪和愚蠢的迷因,從媒體恐慌和學術冷場中拯救了加速主義,發現可愛文化的物件只是未來加速過程的衍生物,使我們變得順從、可繁殖、無助和可愛。可愛將來到,只有倒置法才能理解它對我們所做的事情。逃避所有紀律,滑過所有可能的表面,《可愛加速主義》擁抱可愛的症狀學、病因學、流行病學、歷史學、生物學、詞源學、拓撲學,甚至胚胎學的每一個細節,愉快地深入其中,以探索這個以柔軟方式進入人類文化的事物的潛在空間。穿越自然和非自然選擇的切線,逃逸超常規化,性別群聚可愛的集體自我轉變,少女和御宅的超現實文化,電波和2D愛情,以及aegyo和meng、moé和flatmaxxing、貓男孩和狗蛋、bobbles和gummies、vore機器和部分物體、BwOs和UwUs等可愛的子世界...他們以拥抱、蜷縮、壓扁和尖叫的方式穿越可愛的事件地平線,戴上貓耳朵,一邊玩泡泡,這是一個不合時宜的哲學強化,他們已經投降於最軟的惡魔附身,開始尋找可愛的超驗形狀,只是意識到,即使它無處不在,我們仍然不知道可愛能做什麼。這本簡潔的文本機器既是一個融化又是一個提升,也是對德勒茲和瓜達里的《千個高原》的致敬。歡迎來到kawaiizome:沒有不可愛的東西能逃離近未來,而可愛很快將不再與人類有任何關聯。

作者簡介

Amy Ireland is a theorist and experimental writer currently based in the UK. Her research focuses on questions of agency and technology in modernity, and she is a member of the techno-materialist trans-feminist collective, Laboria Cuboniks.

Maya B. Kronic is the agent, patient, and product of an ongoing research project on hyperstition, gender accelerationism, and cuteness.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Amy Ireland是一位理論家和實驗作家,目前居住在英國。她的研究專注於現代性中的代理和技術問題,並且她是技術物質主義跨性別女性主義集體Laboria Cuboniks的成員。

Maya B. Kronic是一個關於超現實、性別加速主義和可愛的持續研究項目的代理人、病人和產物。