Painting 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.

2021

Éric Alliez, ‘Spectres of Seurat’

Translation

2019

Éric Alliez and Jean-Claude Bonne, ‘Unframing Painting, “Pushing Back the Walls”’

On Matisse, Yve-Alain Bois, and Colour

Translation

2016

Éric Alliez, ‘How Asger Jorn Stole the Value-Form of Modern Art’

On Asger Jorn, painting, situationism, and the avant-garde

Translation

2015

Preface to ‘The Brain-Eye’

An introduction to the methodological and conceptual stakes of Alliez’s studies of modern painting

Writing

2015

Éric Alliez and Jean-Clet Martin, ‘The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting’

A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting

Translation

2015

A Two-Hander

On the work of painter Andy Harper

Writing

2015

The Brain-Ear

Talk on Florian Hecker given at Graz Kunstlerhaus

Writing

2004

Utopia in Humbrol

Some reflections on the paintings of George Shaw

Writing

2004

Squalor, Intoxication, Creation

Theory-fiction exploring the life and work of painter Francis Bacon

Writing