Satire Note 5.2

There’s something about satire which means that it oozes outwards quicker than other modes. This mode forces the reader to draw the text into relation with the social totality quicker. It is ecological insofar as it is always profoundly embedded in a wide contextual web and twangs those threads repeatedly. If you can’t hear the twanging, you won’t quite get it as satire. Or, better, that it has some kind of priorness, that it points at that more frantically than other modes.