Jean-François Lyotard 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.

2023

A Diauditory Note on Synopsis / Libretti for Resynthesizers

Writing

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

Immaterials, Exhibition, Acceleration

On Lyotard’s exhibition ‘Les Immatériaux’

Writing

2015

The Brain-Ear

Talk on Florian Hecker given at Graz Kunstlerhaus

Writing

2015

Jean-Louis Boissier, ‘The Bus of Les Immatériaux’

Reflections on Les Immatériaux by one of the exhibitors

Translation

2015

Jean-François Lyotard, ‘After Six Months of Work…’

Lyotard’s previously unpublished interim report to Centre Pompidou on the project for Les Immatériaux

Translation

2014

Immaterials, Between Acceleration and Anamnesis

Talk on Lyotard’s Les Immatériaux

Writing

2013

Skin Games: A Primer

Accompanying text for Florian Hecker and Reza Negarestani’s C.D.—A Script for Synthesis

Writing