OKCIR:
The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism,
and Science (Utopystics)
The
Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and
Science (Utopystics) is an independent research and pedagogical initiative
dedicated to exploring, in a simultaneously world-historical and self-reflective
framework, the human search for a just global society. Since the world's
utopian, mystical, and scientific movements have been the primary sources
of inspiration, knowledge, and/or practice in this field, OKCIR aims
to critically reexamine the limits and contributions of these world-historical
traditionsseeking to clearly understand why they have failed to
bring about the good society, and what each can integratively contribute
toward realizing that end. The
center aims to develop new conceptual (methodological, theoretical,
historical), practical, curricular, and inspirational structures of
knowledge whereby the individual can radically understand and determine
how world-history and her/his selves constitute one another. OKCIR publishes Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, which
explores issues pertaining to the center's interests, and pursues innovative
editorial, virtual, and print publishing practices reflecting its substantive
goals. (Read more…)
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, Ph.D.
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Mohammad
H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi is Assistant Professor of Sociology, teaching
Social Theory at UMass Boston. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in
Sociology (in conjunction with a graduate certificate in Middle
Eastern studies) from SUNY-Binghamton and a B.A. in Architecture
from U.C. Berkeley. His fields of theoretical specialization
include Sociological Imaginations, Self and Society, World-Historical Sociology, Sociology
of Knowledge, Social Movements, and Utopias. Tamdgidi's research
and teaching are framed by an interest in understanding how
personal self-knowledges and world-historical social structures
constitute one another. His continuing research on liberating
social theory in self and world-historical contexts is pursued
via critical comparative/integrative explorations of utopian,
mystical, and scientific discourses and practices. Tamdgidi
is the founding editor of Human Architecture: Journal of
the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, a publication of OKCIR:
the Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia,
Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics), which serves to frame his
research and pedagogical initiatives.
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Volume VI Issues of
Human Architecture:
Journal of the Sociology of
Self-Knowledge
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New Issues of
Human Architecture:
Journal of the Sociology of
Self-Knowledge
Now Also Available
in
Electronic Format.

Volume V, Issue 1, Fall 2006
Othering Islam

Volume V, Issue 2, Spring 2007
Insiders/Outsiders:
Voices from the Classroom

Volume V, Special Double-Issue,
Summer 2007
Reflections on Fanon
Advancing Utopistics:
The Three Component Parts and Errors of Marxism
(Paradigm Publishers, 2007)

Human Architecture
Volume IV, Special Double-Issue
Summer 2006:
Re-Memberng Anzaldua
(New Cover)
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