couple more sweet quotes from the reading!

“Psychedelics, I think, disconnect both the signifier and the signified from their purported referents in the phenomenal world---simultaneously bestowing upon us a visceral insight into the cultural mechanics of language, and a terrifying inference of the tumultuous nature that swirls beyond it.” Pg. 95

“In a mercantile democracy, however, the only refuge from the marketplace is in the academy. So democracies, I fear, must content themselves with commercial, popular art that informs the culture and non-commercial, academic art that critiques it---with the caveat that, even though most popular art exploits the vernacular, some popular art redeems it---even though it’s still for sale.” Pg. 99