When two signs collide, one genre’s codes dominate the other.

Evidence

In much the same way, something happens to the photograph of the recumbent woman subject when it is surcharged with the profile of sheet lightning: sub specie aeternitatis, perhaps? culture versus nature? at any event, the two signs cannot fail to enter into a relationship with each other in which the generic signals of one begin to predominate (it is, for example, somewhat more difficult to imagine how the image of the woman under hypnosis could begin to draw the lightning stroke into its thematic orbit). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 238

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pop’s dynamism has been driven by mutual negation between rival forms — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1091; Apparent audience ‘misunderstanding’ often signals departure from dominant preferred codes.; Signs are multi-accented arenas where classes struggle over meaning — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 918 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Pop’s dynamism has been driven by mutual negation between rival forms — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1091; Apparent audience ‘misunderstanding’ often signals departure from dominant preferred codes.; Signs are multi-accented arenas where classes struggle over meaning — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 918 (+4 more)