Term
Satire
used in 51 texts across the archive
“Satire is effectively total, and includes itself. Satire sees everyone as aspirants for some center who fail to see the inessentiality of that aspiration, which is to say, its roots in mimetic desire and resentment.”
In use
“Satire is the medium in which such a winnowing out would be enacted, and for the satire to be trustworthy the ruler would have to be on the stage as well.”
“Satire is an attempt to further refine names until they position someone or something or some event on the originary scene, retrieved prior to the second revelation.”
“Satire is not really interested in being realistic, or in improvement—it just wants to show us what inevitably gets forgotten in more acceptable forms of representation.”