Maybe this is a satire of public-private ventures.
"This was a satire of justice," said He Weifang, a law professor at Peking University.
This is a satire that is built not on laughs but on a deep melancholy.
So this is a satire on the kind of TV that its target audience watches.
It could be argued either way whether this is a satire about grubbing for material wealth or a metaphor about searching for spiritual meaning.
This is a satire on the chess match about to be held in Iceland between U.S. champion Bobby Fischer and Russian champion Boris Spassky.
Other photographers would have made this material a satire on the crassness of Americana; Eggleston renders it into a saintly transfiguration.
According to Dorothy George's Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum this is a "satire on Sir William Chambers, illustrating in detail Mason's 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight,…', which had just appeared and opens Knight of the Polar Star.
A second spin on the Dickens classic, this time a satire on the excesses of 1980s television that now seems almost restrained in comparison with modern reality.
This is a satire on the philosophical theories of the great mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who is immortally caricatured in its pages as one Professor Pangloss – hence our word "Panglossian".
