Quentin Meillassoux Archives – 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.

2017

Stages, Plots, and Traumas

The essential tools of the detective and the therapist alike are the scalpel and the compass

Writing

2016

Quentin Meillassoux, ‘Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition: A Speculative Analysis of the Meaningless Sign’

Meillassoux reveals the figures of speculation

Translation

2014

Quentin Meillassoux, ‘Mallarmé’s Materialist Divinization of the Hypothesis’

Presentation of The Number and the Siren.

Translation

2012

Quentin Meillassoux, ‘The Contingency of the Laws of Nature’

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30:2

Translation

2012

Response to Quentin Meillassoux

Freie Universität Berlin, April 2012

Writing

2011

This is This

Text for Florian Hecker’s CD Speculative Solution.

Writing

2011

Quentin Meillassoux, ‘Metaphysics and Extro-Science Fiction’

In Florian Hecker’s Speculative Solution

Translation

2007

Jean-René Vernes and the Obduracy of Matter

Notes on the prehistory of Quentin Meillassoux’s thinking on contingency

Writing