Reshaping the Border Zone. An Approach to Satirical Space
This chapter revisits the question of space in relation to the understanding
of the power of satire; it focuses on so-called “mediascapes” containing the
production and consumption of satirical representations. It is not so easy to
identify the public discursive position of these satirical media spaces. As a
matter of course these stand somewhere in the margin, while interfering with
the mainstream. They seem to involve a certain ‘minority’ stand; they function
somewhere in a ‘border zone’, not really inside, not really outside the dominant
political discourse. I will suggest the notion of zone as an alternative concept, so
as to enable the understanding of the complex dynamics that play around the
construction of public discourses in and through satirical “mediascapes”.