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The Author as Network-Potential. The Work of Art as The Value-Added Network. Hypertext Theory as Commercial Aura. Participatory Autonomy as Collective Self-Reliance. Cyborg-Narrator as Writing-Machine. Pedagogical Performance as Scene of Writing. Illimitable Plenitude as Digital Being. In this episode, artist and theorist Piotr Marecki and Mark Amerika perform a simultaneous reading of Amerika's 1996 Hypertextual Consciousness and then discuss the anarchist tendencies in the post-communist era Demo Culture. The conversation evolves into threads o hacking software, non-artistic intent, and fighting against proprietary, closed software and systems in order to create a more democratic society. Piotr Marecki is Assistant Professor in the Department of Contemporary Culture at the Institute of Culture at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, lecturer at the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School (PWSFTviT) in todz and the Krakow School of Screenwriting. He has studied at the Jagiellonian University (film studies, media studies, cultural studies) and Andrzej Wajda Master School of Directing in Warsaw (Creative Producing). He holds a PhD in cultural studies from The Jagiellonian University. He has been visiting fellow at universities and cultural centres in Europe and the United States, including MIT (USA), The University of Bucharest (Romania), Institute of Arts (Czech Republic). Since 1999 he is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of "Ha!art" magazine, website newspaper and the Publishing House and charmain of the board at Korporacja Ha!art Foundation. His interests include Polish literature after 1989, independent culture, new media literature, experimental writing, cultural margins, film adaptations, and screenwriting. Lori Emerson is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also Founding Director of the Media Archaeology Lab. She write about media poetics as well as the history of computing, media archaeology, media theory, and digital humanities with two book projects, "Other Networks", a history of telecommunications networks that existed before or outside of the Internet; as well as "THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies". Brian Kane is an artist and designer who works with art and technology in the fields of holography, gaming, robotics, internet and mobile, ux, interactive video and entertainment. His fine art has been exhibited in museums and gallery worldwide. He teaches at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.