Here is the first text from the large project of the Colta editors “Around the Horizontal” - about the phenomenon of self-organization: the idea and practice of horizontality in its stereoscopy and specific communities. We will look at horizontality from different angles: economic, political, practical and even philosophical. We started preparing this project last year, then it went on pause (like Colta after it was blocked by Roskomnadzor in March 2022).