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Here, it’s called “Luxury at the End of the World: Status as Authenticity” and it’s liberally sprinkled with asides that include the book’s buzzwords, in an attempt to make it fit the Procrustean bed of its context.

But there was a danger in trying to fit this new, American elite onto the Procrustean bed of every elite that had come before it.

To be sure, one lesson of European history is that it’s never a good idea to try to force Europe’s diverse peoples into a one-size-fits-all Procrustean bed.

There is grandeur in this new view of life, so why force it into the Procrustean bed of nineteenth-century theorizing?

We also need to keep in mind the growing trend for universities to adapt their curricula to fit the proverbial “procrustean” bed of a digital world – a world tailor-made for skimming, scanning and using the “find” function rather than reading slowly and thoughtfully.