Words Into Action

Circadian publishes books that bring “words into action.” But what does it really mean?

Philosophy, fiction, and art too often remain within the realm of the imaginary. There are so many interesting ideas, but they don’t get a chance to be realized to the fullest extent because the implementation strategies are either too difficult or too vague.

While there is no less validity in something abstract, we believe there are already too many practical ideas that serve simplistic self-optimization agendas. The world would benefit from ideas that propose different value systems, suspend the value-extracting drive towards constant growth, question reality, and make life more interesting, not more efficient.

This is why we do not publish self-help books but, rather, books that call people to action. We want each book to offer a concrete strategy to make whatever it is that it proposes into something real, materialized, able to exist here and now or — at least — in the near future.

We ask the authors to propose the concrete steps one could take to try out their version of reality. It turns out that the easiest way to do that is to go through embodying the practice and making it a part of a daily ritual, but we are not limited to the physical realm.