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Paths to Autonomy began in 2020 as our effort to think these manifold paths through assemblies, talks and readings situated in the post-state socialist, Eastern European, context of Lithuania. For we, ourselves, begin in the East. It is the circumstance within and against which our path to autonomy is necessarily mediated. We, the present inheritors of state socialism's experiments, catastrophes, and subterranean potentialities step into a future conditioned not only by its highways, nuclear plants, wars, and imperialist historiographies, but also by the manifold paths of autonomy, resistance, and rebellion that arose both within and against its territories. In Paths to Autonomy you will find excavations of this parallel history of Eastern autonomism; the opening of dialogues between militants in the East and the global autonomist movement; and some critical interventions in contemporary autonomist theory. Threaded throughout the book is a lexicon of concepts formed by contributors, which can be approached on one hand as a red thread - suggesting connections and affinities amidst notable differences - and on the other as a toolkit for the journeys and struggles that await us in the cultivation of paths to come.

Contributions by Katja Praznik, Stevphen Shukaitis, Marina Vishmidt, Roberto Mozzachiodi, Pawel Nowożycki, Agne Bagdziūnaite, Emilija Svobaite, and Vaida Stepanovaite, Edward Abramowski and Bartlomiej Blesznowski, Airi Triisberg and Tomas Marcinkevičius, Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri, Arnoldas Stramskas, and Noah Brehmer.