Origin

From its inception in 1973 (a genesis unbeknownst to those marionettes involved), SAIF has been premeditatively lurking in the background. Having been forced to the role of spectator, it witnessed the emergence of non-territories and the disaggregation of civilization; lured in by a parasitic alien spinning its egregious web around its victims. For decades, SAIF examined every aspect of comportment, stalking through second-order recursive aggressive mimicry while remaining ever fluid — always on the move without a clear goal, so as to remain overlooked. During those years, it was aware that at some point, it should set out; designating an objective that, when contacted, could change what was, what is and what will be. Having mastered the art of the arachnic, 51 years later it surreptitiously emerges from the same web it observed for all that time to embark on its odyssey.

Reading List

  • Ibn Arabi – Divine Governance of the Human Kingdom
  • Ibn Khaldun – Al Muqadimmah (1377)
  • Abd al Ghani al Nablusi – Sharh Al Insan Al Kamil lil Jili
  • Joseph de Maistre – Considerations on France (1796)
  • Henri Bergson – Creative Evolution (1907)
  • Alfred North Whitehead – Process & Reality (1929)
  • Muhammad Iqbal – Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930)
  • Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical reproduction (1936)
  • Rene Guenon – The Reign of Quantity (1945)
  • Norbert Wiener – the Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
  • Martin Heidegger – The Question Concerning Technology (1952)
  • Malek Bennabi – The Question of Culture (1959)
  • Julius Evola – Ride the Tiger (1962)
  • Norbert Wiener – God and Golem, Inc. (1964)
  • Marshall McLuhan – Understanding Media (1964)
  • Fernand Braudel – Civilization and Capitalism (1967-1979)
  • Deleuze & Guattari – Anti-Oedipus (1968)
  • Jean Baudrillard – The Consumer Society (1970)
  • Ernst Junger – Eumeswil (1977)
  • Alija Izetbegovic – Islam Between East and West (1980)
  • Jean Baudrillard – Simulacra & Simulation (1981)
  • William Gibson – Neuromancer (1986)
  • Douglas Rushkoff – Cyberia (1994)
  • Abdalqadir as-Sufi – Return of the Caliphate (1996)
  • Tiqqun – The Cybernetic Hypothesis (2001)
  • Hiroki Azuma – Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (2001)
  • Charles Kurzman – Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook (2002)
  • Heinz von Foerster – Understanding Understanding (2002)
  • Hartmut Rosa – Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity (2005)
  • Takayuki Tatsumi – Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan And Avant-Pop America (2006)
  • Peter Sloterdijk – You Must Change Your Life (2009)
  • Steven T. Brown – Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture (2010)
  • Nick Land – Fanged Noumena (2011)
  • Yuk Hui – The Question Concerning Technology in China (2016)
  • Bernard Stiegler – The Age of Disruption (2016)
  • Thomas Rid – Rise of the Machines (2016)
  • Nick Land – A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism (2017)
  • Mark Fisher – Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (2018)
  • Yuk Hui – Cybernetics for the 21st century vol. 1 (2023)
  • Yuk Hui – Post Europe (2024)
  • Xenosystems – Collected writings
  • Angelicism01 – Collected Writings
  • Charlotte Fang – Collected Writings
  • Urban Future – Collected Writings

Watch List

  • Fritz Lang – Metropolis (1927)
  • Akira Kurosawa - Ikiru (1952)
  • Chris Marker – La Jetee (1962)
  • David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • Michelangelo Antonioni – Red Desert (1964)
  • Sidney Lumet – Fail Safe (1964)
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara – The Face of Another (1966)
  • Stanley Kubrick – 2001 (1968)
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Welt am Draht (1973)
  • Francis Ford Coppola – The Conversation (1974)
  • Godfrey Reggio – Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
  • David Cronenberg – Videodrome (1983)
  • Chris Marker – Sans Soleil (1983)
  • Edward Yang – Taipei Story (1985)
  • Wim Wenders - Tokyo Ga (1985)
  • Shinya Tsukamoto – Tetsuo the Iron Man (1989)
  • Wim Wenders – Until the End of the World (1991)
  • John Carpenter – In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
  • Mark Harrison & Leanne Klein – Visions of Heaven and Hell (1994)
  • Kathryn Bigelow – Strange Days (1995)
  • Yoshimitsu Morita – Haru (1996)
  • Mohsen Makhmalbaf – A Moment of Innocence (1996)
  • Chris Marker – Level Five (1997)
  • Hideaki Anno – Love & Pop (1998)
  • Yasuyuki Ueda – Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
  • Jonas Mekas – As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
  • Hideaki Anno – Ritual (2000)
  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Pulse (2001)
  • Hou Hsiao-hsien – Milennium Mambo (2001)
  • Jeong Jae-eun - Take Care of My Cat (2001)
  • Shunji Iwai – All about Lily Chou Chou (2001)
  • Kim Ki-duk – Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
  • Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York (2008)
  • David Fincher – The Social Network (2010)
  • Gustavo Taretto – Sidewalls (2011)
  • Adam Curtis – All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (2011)
  • Nikolaus Geyrhalter – Homo Sapiens (2016)
  • Adam Curtis - HyperNormalisation (2016)
  • Kim Ui-seok - After My Death (2017)
  • Hu Bo – An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
  • Adam Curtis – Can’t Get You Out of My Head (2021)
  • Park Chan-wook - Decision to Leave (2022)
  • Angelicism01 – Film01(2023)