BubbaNub : Jencks

Up until now, our class speculations on postmodernism have been largely interpretive of what it is not. It is not the signifier or the signified, the implicit or the explicit, but rather the unspoken and unseen. It is this relation shared between them which holds the defining factor. In Jencks article on Postmodern Poetic's we have finally been given a set of new rules that distinguish the era of postmodernism. Taking our previous readings a step further we are lead to examine how everything connects.

The implicit and explicit and our study of semiotics accurately reflect the same relations found in Jenck's new rules. The desire to portray the ironic is an entire statement on the relation/connection between two things. Urbanism is shown as irony in itself in its attempt to meet double standards (Canonic Classicism). However, this is the trend of the world. Ethics and morals modified by Pluralism reinforce Jenck's first rule of disharmonious harmony (282-283). We exist in an era that permits multiple truths, many of which contradict each other. However, it is not the messages and the separate truths that are important. The interpretation of the relation between these truths is the key to hearing the unspoken messages we have been too blind to see. It is this unheralded force that is currently leading us, whether we realize it or not, into another new era.