DJK Huysmans—Felt Cute – Maya B. Kronic

Maya B. Kronic (they/them) is a recrypted iteration of a philosopher, and is Head of Research and Development at the publisher Urbanomic, which aims to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production. 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, as well as translating innumerable essays and various book-length works of French philosophy.

Their research interests include: accelerationism, the ethics of intensity, subjectivity and the earth, the cute and the supernormal, deleuze and mathematics, and transphoria.

Available for editorial, proofreading, copy-editing, and translation (FR>EN) work, and commissions. Buy me a coffee.

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2024

Guest Mix for Silvia Kastel’s show on NTS Radio. Listen to the show here.

It‘s bobbly and it’s wobbly, it’s round and bouncy, smooth but sharp, smol but blobby, clumsy but just-so, it’s squishy, truncated, wonky, eepy, extremely superficial and superficially extreme…and you’re its next victim. In this delish bundle of adorbs bops, DJK Huysmans (AKA Maya B. Kronic, co-author of Cute Accelerationism) glomps the shapeshifting sonic consistency of Cute, steering around the zany, the dozy, the sweet and the sentimental, the manic and the unhinged, the whimsical and the beautiful to flump straight into the hyperplastic supernormal emojified heart of cuteness. Nothing uncute makes it out of the near future.