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.
In Florian Hecker, Resynthesizers, published by Urbanomic, forthcoming 2024.
Essay on Florian Hecker’s remarkable project Resynthesizers, staged at the modernist Fitzpatrick-Leland House in Los Angeles in 2022, and which combined electroacoustic, olfactory, and textual elements—a series of libretti by myself (also included in the book) transmitted on three electrophoretic displays positioned within the house.