Simon Dennis
Simon Dennis (1933-2010) has been known as one of the greatest and yet one of the most controversial quintographers of recent history. This page will go over the most notable works in his bibliography.
Five Images, Four Surfaces (1960)
Dennis's seminal work. Addressing the problem of the "missing surface", Dennis's work revitalised the study of quintography after almost two decades of stagnation following the destruction of the Brno school at the hands of the Nazis.
On the Unlinking of Overgenerative Forms (1967)
Although not the easiest to read, this work by Dennis was highly important in the progression of generation theory.
Quintography, Book I: Quintographical Analysis (1969)
The first half of Dennis's introduction to quintography. This part goes over an introduction to quintography and quintographical analysis.
1. Introduction
2. The Dilemma of the Foxes
3. The Five Postulates
4. Foundation of Mind Towards Matter
5. Visual and Internal Sociology
6. Asphyxiation of the Self
7. The Success of Quintographical Numerology
8. Subfundamental and Superfundamental Analysis
9. Quantitative Reading
10. Advanced Quintographical Analysis
Quintography, Book II: Quintographical Historiography (1970)
The second half of Dennis's introduction to quintography, discussing quintographical historiography and an introduction to sextological research.
11. An Introduction to Nominal History
12. The Beginnings of Urbology and the Progression of the Cities
13. The Banquet of Rome
14. The Great Reversal
15. The Wheel of Capitalism
16. Destruction of the Internal Form
17. Destruction of Alternate Forms
18. Reconstruction of the Triadic Form
19. Posterior Relationships
20. Sextological Considerations
The Life of Tomasek (1970)
Simon Dennis's biography of his mentor, David Tomášek. Tomášek was one of the few Brno school quintographers who managed to escape the National Socialist and Communist occupations of Czechoslovakia. Published shortly after Tomášek's death.
Numerology (1972)
Still the go-to resource for studying numerology. Dennis believed that numerology was the most powerful tool available to a quintographer.
The Black Forest (1979)
The Black Forest, Dennis's longest and most dense work, marked a departure from Dennis's original approaches to quintography, developing a more fundamental style of analysis and rejecting the more advanced techniques of the time such as sextology and transitive epistemology. Rederiving the findings of quintography of the past century, Dennis expands on his thoughts on history, religion, science, politics and more.
A Meeting of Three Worlds (1982)
One of Dennis's more controversial works. Written during the height of the Trade War, he outlines his arguments against the "political and economic appropriation of quintography", discussing his opposition to the economic theory of "the Hypermarket", popular among SPQR2 theoreticians at the time, and founding the concept of the "Loss of Innocence" and applying it to many points in history.
Reading Middleton (1983)
An easy to read analysis and overview of Middleton's only published work on quintography in English, The Quintographical Universe, in line with Dennis's interpretations of Middleton.
Cutting out the Fat (1990)
A defense of Dennis's later methodology of fundamental quintography, the rigorous derivation from and testing of quintographical theories against the five postulates.
A Response to Sextologists (1998)
Although initially very supportive of sextology and enjoying great contact with Jyotsana Devi herself, following the publication of The Black Forest, Dennis fell out with the sextologists and reversed his stance on the field. This book highlights the problems Dennis saw in sextology, characterising it as a field where "countless effort has been wasted".