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
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)
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)
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)