art Archives – Maya B. Kronic

Maya B. Kronic (they/them) is a philosopher and 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 B. Kronic is a recrypted iteration of the autist formerly known as Robin Mackay.

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.

2024

’89 Domande a Maya B. Kronic

Lengthy interview with online magazine the1989

Writing

2021

Notes 4 Saps

Art is ‘wasted energy’

Writing

2021

Éric Alliez, ‘Spectres of Seurat’

Translation

2019

Marion Zilio, ‘Faceworld’

The face as technological apparel, in the age of the selfie

Translation

2016

Éric Alliez, ‘How Asger Jorn Stole the Value-Form of Modern Art’

On Asger Jorn, painting, situationism, and the avant-garde

Translation

2016

Speculation et Circulation: Alliances Opportunes et Théoriques entre Philosophie et L’Art Contemporain

On the various relations between art, philosophy, and contemporary disquiet (in French)

Writing

2015

Preface to ‘The Brain-Eye’

An introduction to the methodological and conceptual stakes of Alliez’s studies of modern painting

Writing

2015

Éric Alliez and Jean-Clet Martin, ‘The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting’

A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting

Translation

2014

Thalassa: A Fantasia on a Fantasia

Ferenczi and the aestheme

Writing