Paradox, Discipline, Imperative

I want to distinguish between an established, ordered space (the discipline), on the one hand, and the process of discovery that can and at times must run counter to that space (the disciplinary space), on the other hand--a discipline has to generate its own self-critiques. The reason I think of this as "satire" is that disciplines need that self-critique when their anomalies become unmistakable. But they become unmistakable to some before they do to others--so, while some inquirers are still going about their everyday research routines, there will be a few for whom those routines have lost their compelling character. In cutting against the grain of the prevailing research program, they must "mock" those routines, even if unintentionally--they can't take them seriously anymore. I think we can call this satire, and if we do so, we can make it intentional, and accentuate it.