Okcir Press (an imprint of Ahead Publishing House)
Okcir Press (est. 2002) is an imprint of Ahead Publishing House (APH, est. 1991) and a publishing conduit for the publications of OKCIR: Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). Okcir Press is the publisher of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge.
Okcir Press also publishes other works that advance the inspirational, intellectual, and practical aims of OKCIR, as broadly defined in its mission statement and in the editorial perspective of Human Architecture.
OKCIR: Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics) (est. 2002) is an independent research and publishing 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 shortcomings and contributions of these world-historical traditions—seeking to clearly understand why they have failed to bring about the good society, and what each can integratively contribute toward realizing that end.
These generally include works—academic or non-academic, fiction or non-fiction, prose or poetry, textual or graphic—which demonstrate serious efforts in seeking personal self-knowledge and transformation within increasingly global and world-historical frameworks.
The center promotes creative exercises in liberating sociology and alternative pluriversities of knowledge production and publication in the global cyberspace. As a virtual research center, its publications are available online in its free-access digital library and in other academic database member-stacks, and for purchase online via the Okcir Store and other online distributors. Selected publications are also available in print for online purchase by libraries, institutions, and interested print readers.
Okcir Press is especially interested in publishing critical self-explorations that involve comparative / integrative engagements across utopian, mystical, and academic movements emergent from philosophical, religious, and scientific discourses—East and West.
Okcir Press does not accept unsolicited submissions at this time.
Okcir Press publishes Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. For OKCIR’s publications to date, please visit OKCIR’S homepage.
Correspondence Address: Ahead Publishing House (imprint Okcir Press), P. O. Box 393, Belmont, MA, 02478, USA.
Email Address: info[at]okcir.com
Submissions: Okcir Press does not accept unsolicited manuscripts at this time until further notification.
Aside from the Okcir Store, works published by Okcir Press or Ahead Publishing House can be purchased also from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Google Play , or other online bookstore.