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The Lean Institution - by Mike Pepi - Heavy Machinery

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Featuring a 2014 talk that was darkly prophetic

I wrote this talk first in 2014 and then revised it for a symposium at University of Applied Arts Vienna entitled Institutional Critique at the Post-Digital Turn: Museums and Databases Symposium on May 12th & 13th 2022. On March 20, 2025, DOGE operatives took control of the Institute of Museum and Library Services at the Federal level and began procedures to dismantle the organizations activities. The Lean Institution was my attempt to explore the underlying ideology and methods through which Silicon Valley platforms and actors undermine and replace cultural institutions. Let’s start by…

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