Michael Kibedi

👊🏾💥 critical technologist // design researcher // 🦆 birdwatcher // 🍽️ collects menus (no, really) // 🔗 linktr.ee/uxmichaelco // 🌐 uxmichael.co

Long exposure photo of a Pan African London Underground roundel, a permanent artwork by the Ghanaian British artist Larry Achiampong.

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Reintroducing First and Fifteenth

First and Fifteenth is a newsletter by me, Michael Kibedi. I am a design researcher and critical technologist, and I use this newsletter to publish book reviews and my essays on human-computer interaction, ontology, and ecology told through the interpretative lens of Black studies and conceptual art. The name of

By Michael Kibedi 01 Jan 2026

First and Fifteenth

Essays from a critical technologist, told through the interpretative lens of Black Studies and conceptual art.

First and Fifteenth

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