Over the months and then years to come, the deadline for this piece was pushed back repeatedly. Amy wrote to say they were beginning to doubt their level of control over it. It had “grown into a total beast,” and no deadline could be promised for their cute investigations. The min2.report commission took up permanent residence on the backburner. But the years of cutological research it had prompted eventually coalesced into a compact philosophical machine, a book as terminally cute as its problem: Cute Accelerationism (2024).
In this conversation with Günseli Yalcinkaya—their first interview about the book, conducted in November 2023 and previously unpublished—the authors discuss being demonically possessed by Cute, superficial philosophy, 2.5D culture, alien signals, and the bedroom as the control room for digital transformation. The accompanying instructional video, produced exclusively for Minority Report, charts the explosive acceleration of cuteness across the multiple circuits explored in Cute Accelerationism.
Available on Minority Report.