“Culture as this particular academic knows it is dead, buried, reincarnated only to walk the earth as a movie remake based on the original sitcom. The problem isn’t dummy art or the proliferation of immoral pop culture, or even a house of mirrors assembly-line media. The problem resides in the inability of the majority of those who comment on the arts – journalists, academics, professional artists, producers, editors, information-age cultural critics – to come to terms with emerging new ways of living with and through mass culture. – The Globe and Mail (Canada)