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Now available for ordering and/or free download…<br>
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<b>Paths to Autonomy</b><br>
Edited by Noah Bremer & Vaida Stepanovaite<br>
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Collection exploring the history and development of autonomous
politics in Lithuania and Eastern Europe<br>
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A path is created when a direction is taken, its production marks
the imbrication of personal choice, communal action and subhuman
(structural, historical, ecological) conditionings. We are at the
same time the makers of our paths and subject to the inheritance
of paths we have made with others and which have arrived before
our own makings. And just as class is not a static, abstract,
transhistorical form, neither are the paths of its articulation as
autonomous revolts of selves against capital – there are many
paths to, for, and of autonomy. The autonomist tradition, that
politically experimental effort to build autonomy within and
against capitalism, has been intensely variegated from its
inception in the 1970s. From an initial focus upon the question of
proletarian autonomy, its paths have multiplied, bifurcated, and
diffused. Following the legacies of decolonial and feminist
autonomism, we would argue for an embrace of autonomy’s
differences and bifurcations. We see not one path but many. A
diffusion that not only amounts to the proliferation of
oppositional subjects – i.e. a proliferation of the modes by which
we refuse to be subjects for capital – but also of the
geographies, ecologies, and temporalities that mediate the
articulation of selves.<br>
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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.<br>
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Contributions by Katja Praznik, Stevphen Shukaitis, Marina
Vishmidt, Roberto Mozzachiodi, Paweł Nowożycki, Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė,
Emilija Švobaitė, and Vaida Stepanovaitė, Edward Abramowski and
Bartłomiej Błesznowski, Airi Triisberg and Tomas Marcinkevičius,
Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri, Arnoldas Stramskas, and Noah Brehmer.<br>
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Bio: Noah Brehmer is a militant researcher, editor, and union
member who migrated from NYC to Lithuania in 2013. Currently based
in Vilnius, Noah organizes a range of activities through the
movement space Luna6 and is a co-coordinator of Solidarity Network
Y?! (an emerging support network for comradely organizations in
the region). In 2022, Brehmer cofounded Lost Property Press, with
Vaida Stepanovaitė. Brehmer has published articles and essays in
Blind Field Journal, LeftEast, Mute Magazine, Metropolis M,
Artnews.lt, and OpenDemocracy. <br>
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PDF available freely online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1148">https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1148</a><br>
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Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions
site.<br>
Release to the book trade December 2022.<br>
<br>
Released by Minor Compositions in Collaboration with Lost Property
Press<br>
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations
drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.<br>
<br>
266 pages, paperback, 5.5 x 8.5<br>
UK: £18 / US: $23<br>
ISBN 978-1-57027-404-6<br>
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