François Laruelle 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.

2015

François Laruelle, ‘The Concept of Non-Photography’

An introduction to Laruelle’s non-philosophy by way of photography

Translation

2013

François Laruelle, Anti-Badiou

Laruelle’s polemical tract against Badiou’s ‘philosophical Maoism’.

Translation

2012

Art and the Practice of Non-Philosophy

Presentation on Laruelle and the work of Pamela Rosenkranz, at Pavilion, Leeds

Writing

2012

Response to Laruelle on Non-Photography

Response to François Laruelle’s presentation at Goldsmiths

Writing

2012

François Laruelle, ‘Photo-Fiction: An Exercise in Non-Standard Aesthetics’

The construction of a ‘photo-fictional’ camera

Translation

2011

Combusting Human Spontaneity

Talk on Laruelle and Althusser

Writing

2005

Controversy over the Possibility of a Science of Philosophy

A heated discussion between Jacques Derrida and François Laruelle, published in La Decision Philosophique No. 5, April 1988.

Translation