In Episode #227, author Mike Pepi joins Osi to talk about the idea that technology is neutral—and why that’s a myth. They dig into the cycle of creating new technologies to solve problems caused by earlier ones, the hidden beliefs built into the platforms we use every day, and how those platforms shape the way we think, act, and connect with others.

Mike Pepi writes about art, culture, and technology. His work has appeared in frieze, e-flux, Flash Art, Art in America, DIS Magazine, The Straddler, The New Inquiry, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, this is tomorrow, 艺术界 LEAP, the Apollo Magazine blog, Spike Art, The Brooklyn Rail, Rhizome, and The New Criterion.

He organized Cloud-Based Institutional Critique (CBIC), a reading group focused on emerging digital technologies and their relationship to cultural institutions. In 2015, he guest-edited the Data Issue of DIS Magazine with Marvin Jordan. In 2018, he guest-edited a special issue of Heavy Machinery for SFMoMA's Open Space.