Film 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.

2018

Jean-Luc Godard: Voyage(s) en Utopie

Three texts on Jean-Luc Godard’s vexed relationship with the museum and the exhibition format

Translation

2017

Image Invasion

On living under the threat of apocalypse.

Writing

2016

Anne-Françoise Schmid, ‘Lost Films as Philosophical Fiction’

Text for the programme of the 2016 UNdocumenta film festival, Gwangju.

Translation

2015

Gesture as Playlist

Presentation on choreography and the digital, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image in Frankfurt

Writing

2014

Event, Screen, Concert (Unmaking Worlds with Cerith and Florian)

Cerith Wyn Evans and Florian Hecker’s No night no day (Venice 2009)

Writing

2013

Foreword to Amanda Beech, ‘Final Machine’

Channelling Beech’s mash-up of epistemology and noir

Writing

2010

Showdown at Mantalini’s

Short text on friendship in Michael Mann’s Heat

Writing

2005

London in Black & White : Hex ICA remix

Synthetic photo-essay on the city and its fictions

Writing