WORKSHOP: Kjut Accelerationism

Temptation is everywhere: in advertising and social media, in anime and hyperpop, in toys, fashion and digital identities. But can it accelerate as a phenomenon enough to give rise to new forms of desire, relationship, and being? In Cute Accelerationism, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic do not reduce justifications to a commercial trend imposed by capitalism; rather, they see it as a force that shapes bodies, desires, and identities. Kjut is not commodified girlhood, but an idea with a strange potential: softness becomes disturbing here, submission enables transformation, and overworked femininity opens up to new forms of gender and being.

This reading group will be held in Polish. It will be led by Patryk Ciesielczyk, translator of “Kjut Accelerationism”. Participants will talk about the challenges of translating this publication, as well as look for what is new in Polish digital culture in order to discover the political, queer and transformative potential of this force in the local context. This event accompanies the premiere of the Polish translation of the book, published by the Working Group in partnership with Unsound. It is free, but you need to register. The form is available here.