This artist book draws inspiration from Reza Negarestani’s transformative seminars, “Catechism for Revolutionary Philosophy,” held at The New Centre for Research & Practice in late 2024. These sessions provided profound insights into speculative and philosophical frameworks that subtly inform the undercurrents of this project. However, the interpretations, speculative departures, and creative liberties within these pages are entirely our own. Neither Reza Negarestani nor the New Centre for Research & Practice bears any responsibility for the content or direction of this book.

Siahkal names a place in the forests of Gilan and a threshold in revolutionary time. In 1971 a guerrilla action near Siahkal shook the order of the Shah. The action failed militarily yet seeded a myth for the People’s Fedai Guerrillas. Bizhan Jazani, a founding thinker, wrote and painted in prison and was executed in 1975. His work teaches that strategy rather than sentiment endures. This book treats Siahkal as a Deep Object, a persistent attractor that gathers memory, images, and tactics. An AI model trained on Jazani’s writings and paintings translates his essay on Islamic Marxism and proposes annotations. The machine functions as a probe that widens attention while remaining accountable to the source. Parham Ghalamdar trained the AI, wrote the introduction, and composed ASCII diagrams and diagrammatic readings from Jazani’s artworks. Parsa Esmaeilzadeh contributes an essay that reads Jazani through Karatani and left accelerationism.       It is a call to reimagine and export revolution as a Deep Object that asks for Deep Time to unfold. This clandestine edition invites the reader to study, test, and build strategy that can outlast the news cycle and meet the future head on.

As part of the vision of the editorial project, the e-book is free, though there is a limited run of prints available to commemorate the project. The money from these prints are split directly by metalabel at a ratio of 30/70 in order to cover the production costs put up by Becoming Press.