notes on camp

I really didn't understand Notes on Camp. I am not really sure why Weike had me read this. What is "Camp"? This is what I read: "camp" is a form of refined taste, aestheticism, valuing art not for its purpose but perhaps for its failure. "Camp" is not about sincerity, but style. All style, no substance.

The whole time while I was reading this, I responded to Sontag the same way I did to the narrator from The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Yes, I know you were educated at the University of Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, the Sorbonne - but do you really have to establish your own intellectual superiority over the reader? At the same time, there were moments when I saw Der Rosenkavalier, Donne, Aristophanes, and I smiled to myself and thought, wow, Brearley educated me well. 

And I am super intrigued by the idea of what exactly "Camp" is. I see "Camp" in the people around me: in people like Lily F., maybe even Florence L. I hope to read this in a classroom setting.