15
Jun
Fifteenth #19: On water
London is a city of forgotten streams and lost rivers; of sedimented layers encase ancient waterways that have long since
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Michael Kibedi
👊🏾💥 critical technologist // design researcher // 🦆 birdwatcher // 🍽️ collects menus (no, really) // 🔗 linktr.ee/uxmichaelco // 🌐 uxmichael.co
01
Jun
First # 19: Natural Connection
Technology is manufactured — chemically intensive and extractive processes are deployed to transform raw materials into sophisticated digital devices. Technology demands
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15
May
Fifteenth #18: On the slopcore aesthetic
There is a strange glaze mediating your perception of the synthetic images in your feed. At first glance, you sense
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01
May
First #18: Enshittification
If you are steeped in internet culture, this is a word that you might have encountered sometime in the last
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15
Apr
Fifteenth #17: On unlearning
Why do we do research? This might seem like an insultingly simple question, yet perhaps we have never paused to
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01
Apr
First #17: Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create
Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create is a slender manual written by Dirk Vis — a Dutch lecturer
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15
Mar
Fifteenth #16: On the Men (and sometimes Women) Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
In 1899, Mark Twain published the short story The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg. Written towards the end of his two-
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01
Mar
First #16: The AI Con
The AI Con, as its name misleadingly suggests, is not solely about AI; rather, it is an assiduous exercise in
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01
Jan
Reintroducing First and Fifteenth
First and Fifteenth is a newsletter by me, Michael Kibedi. I am a design researcher and critical technologist, and I
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