Social:Maya B. Kronic

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Short description: English cultural theorist
Maya B. Kronic
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Websitereadthis.wtf

Maya B. Kronic [1] is a philosopher, and translator whose work focuses on accelerationism, technology and contemporanean speculative philosophy.

Career

Since 2009, she is the editor and publisher of Urbanomics,[2] a website and publishing house about contemporaneous western object oriented philosophy. In 2006, she has founded Collapse an independent, non-affiliated magazine of philosophical research and development.

She was a member of the short-lived research program C.C.R.U until 1998.[3] In 2024, she had published Cute Accelerationism [4] with Amy Ireland. She is renown for being the translator in English of the French philosopher Alain Badiou.[5] More controversially, she is the publisher of Nick Land's anthology Fanged Noumena edited together with the philosopher Ray Brassier.

References

  1. Mila Azimonti, Audio essays as multiverse portals: Sonic Faction, By the North Sea & the practice of anti-linear time, https://clotmag.com. Second footnote says Robin Mackay now goes by Maya B. Kronic (they/them). Although the audio essay was created when the author was still known as Mackay, we’ll use Kronic throughout for clarity.
  2. https://www.urbanomic.com
  3. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915103154/cute-accelerationism/
  4. https://shs.cairn.info/modelisation-et-interdisciplinarite--9782759221387-page-269?lang=fr