Selected Works:

Don't Forget to Write:

Fascinated by the allure of mass consumed subculture of science fiction, Saint Simon engages the fantasy setting as a chance to suspend the regular rules of language and conversation within it's structure of a scientific causal nexus. Though this setting, it is his hope to skew the position of the contextual perineum as being artificial and subjective. To call attention to this rift without completely disorienting the viewer it is necessary to draw upon a readily availably narrative, one that is imbedded within the subculture. What could be more canonized in science fiction than StarWars? Thus, this piece of fan-fiction took shape.

Herminutic Jokes:

Circulated widely in underground zines, Saint Simon felt there was more to be said. While sci-fi fan fiction had its market it lacked the real world bridge he felt would cull out the natural play of his take on communication. What Saint Simon needed was a subversive forum for the cyclical nature of context and structure to play out. To do this, he took a step away from his principles to examine them in a medium that would allow their play to be unimpeded but still ground them into real world exchanges. Saint Simon arrived at the structure of a joke. The content of the joke only make sense in the structure and context that a joke is being told. Often the absurdity of the content eclipses the symbiotic relation between structure and context. He hoped that by adjusting the content would remove the shroud from the form of the joke. This would supply two insights: the inner workings and exchange of the joke with the listener, and a solidifying of the often-unaccounted nature of humor. The result is Saint Simons' Herminutic Jokes.

"Strongly Worded Letters" Project:

The most developed discourse is the incarnation of a "Strongly Worded Letters" Project: which draws the attention to the relationship between subject, author, and tonality of formal language. In perhaps his most daring and telling experiment yet, playing with the three elements within a very tightly regimented structure of a strongly worded letter Saint Simon ferments the structure in making this an episodic piece. To date he has yielded a dialectic alchemy: where he employs a structure that exists outside of regular speaking as is the case with sci-fi fan fiction and the contextual humor of hermeneutic jokes. In a great many respects, the letters read like pranks more than experiments into the nature of literary theory and interpretation.

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