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


  • Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Farabi – Madina al Fadila (948)
  • Ibn Arabi – Divine Governance of the Human Kingdom
  • Ibn Khaldun – Al Muqadimmah (1377)
  • Joseph de Maistre – Considerations on France (1796)
  • Rene Guenon – East and West (1924)
  • Martin Heidegger – Being and Time (1927)
  • Muhammad Iqbal – Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930)
  • Rene Guenon – The Reign of Quantity (1945)
  • Norbert Wiener – the Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
  • Martin Heidegger – The Question Concerning Technology (1952)
  • Seyyed Qutb – Milestones (1962)
  • Julius Evola – Ride the Tiger (1962)
  • Fernand Braudel – A History of Civilizations (1963)
  • Norbert Wiener – God and Golem, Inc. (1964)
  • Marshall McLuhan – Understanding Media (1964)
  • Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
  • 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)
  • Charles Kurzman – Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook (2002)
  • Nick Land – Fanged Noumena (2011)
  • Yuk Hui – The Question Concerning Technology in China (2016)
  • Thomas Rid - Rise of the Machines (2016)
  • Nick Land – A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism (2017)
  • Abdal Hakim Murad – Travelling Home (2020)
  • 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

Watch List


  • Fritz Lang – Metropolis (1927)
  • Chris Marker – La Jetee (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)
  • Shinya Tsukamoto – Tetsuo the Iron Man (1989)
  • Wim Wenders – Until the End of the World (1991)
  • 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)
  • Shunji Iwai – All about Lily Chou Chou (2001)
  • 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)
  • Hu Bo – An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
  • Adam Curtis – Can’t Get You Out of My Head (2021)
  • Angelicism01 – Film01(2023)