Christopher Kirkley

Travel
Uchronia: Imagining an Alternate History Where a Malian Emperor Discovered America
In 'Uchronia,' photographer Maciek Pozoga and musicologist Christopher Kirkley imagine what might have happened if a Malian emperor was actually the first person to get to the New World.
Maciek Pozoga and Christopher Kirkley
9.17.15
Tech
Inside the Cell Phone File Sharing Networks of Western Africa (Q+A)
Digital filesharing doesn't need the internet. This is the case at least in Western Africa and other parts of the developing world, where computers aren't yet consumer goods for most and, even if they were, web access isn't exactly New York City...
Michael Byrne
1.3.12
Tech
MB Mixtape 2011 .10: Group Anmataff, "Tinariwen"
_No, no, it's not another list. It's a mixtape, the finest in innovative, future-forward sounds assembled by your pals at Motherboard. You get one track a day from now until the end of the year, and then it all comes together into the best document of...
Michael Byrne
12.29.11