Maya B. Kronic

Maya B. Kronic
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
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Maya B. Kronic, formerly Robin Mackay, is a philosopher and translator whose work focuses on accelerationism, technology, and contemporary speculative philosophy.

Career

Since 2009, Kronic has been the editor and publisher of Urbanomic, a publishing house of contemporary western object oriented philosophy. In 2006, Kronic founded Collapse, an independent, non-affiliated magazine of philosophical research and development.

Kronic was a member of the short-lived research program Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (C.C.R.U) until 1998.

Kronic is known for being the translator in English of the French philosopher Alain Badiou.[better source needed] Other translations include work by Éric Alliez [fr]. More controversially, they are the publisher of Nick Land's anthology Fanged Noumena edited together with the philosopher Ray Brassier.

In 2024, Kronic published Cute Accelerationism with Amy Ireland. Kronic is also the author of By The North Sea.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "'89 domande a Maya B. Kronic – Urbanomic & CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit)". the1989. 25 August 2023. Retrieved 2026-09-17.
  2. 1 2 Azimonti, Mila (2024-12-06). "Audioessays as multiverse portals & anti-linear time". Clot Magazine. Retrieved 2026-09-17.
  3. ↑ Roffe, Jon (2008). "Collapse—Philosophical Research and Development" (PDF). Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy (4): 79–80.
  4. ↑ Puiseux, Charlotte; Costa, Donatien; Lamotte, Martin; Roux, Samuel (2019-10-17). "Monde des idées". Revue du Crieur (in French). 14 (3). La Découverte: 132–151. doi:10.3917/crieu.014.0132. ISSN 2428-4068.
  5. ↑ Schmid, Anne-Françoise (2014-03-20), "Modélisation et interdisciplinarité", Indisciplines, Éditions Quæ, pp. 269–296, doi:10.3917/quae.nicol.2014.01.0269, ISBN 978-2-7592-2138-7, retrieved 2026-09-17{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  6. ↑ Emerling, Jae (2024-03-01). "Body without Organs, Body without Image: Ernesto Neto's Anti-Leviathan, Becoming-Matisse: Between Painting and Architecture, and Duchamp Looked At (from the Other Side) / Duchamp with (and against) Lacan, vols. 1–3 of Undoing the Image". Critical Inquiry. 50 (3): 567–569. doi:10.1086/728941. ISSN 0093-1896.
  7. ↑ "Cute Accelerationism". MIT Press. Archived from the original on 2026-08-25. Retrieved 2026-09-17.
  8. ↑ Iadarola, Alexander (2025-01-02). "Is Accelerationism the Same Thing As Falling in Love?". Spike Art Magazine. Retrieved 2026-09-17.
  9. ↑ Barry, Robert (2024-09-20). "Robin Mackay – By The North Sea". The Quietus. Retrieved 2026-09-17.

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