{"id":3200,"date":"2013-05-02T00:40:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2013-05-02T00:40:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T04:40:24","slug":"fifty-shades-of-late-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/02\/fifty-shades-of-late-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Shades of Late Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something fun <a title=\"The Baffler: Fifty Shades of Late Capitalism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebaffler.com\/past\/fifty_shades_of_late_capitalism\">to read<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026What <em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> offers is an extreme vision of late-capitalist deliverance, the American (wet) dream on performance-enhancing drugs. Just as magazines such as <em>Penthouse<\/em>, <em>Playboy<\/em>, <em>Chic<\/em>, and <em>Oui<\/em> (speaking of aspirational names) have effectively equated the moment of erotic indulgence with the ultimate consumer release, a totem of the final elevation into amoral privilege, James\u2019s trilogy represents the latest installment in the commodified sex genre. The money shot is just that: the moment when our heroine realizes she\u2019s been ushered into the hallowed realm of the 1 percent, once and for all.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"The Baffler: Fifty Shades of Late Capitalism \" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebaffler.com\/past\/fifty_shades_of_late_capitalism\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.thebaffler.com\/past\/fifty_shades_of_late_capitalism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via <a title=\"Critical Theory: Read Me: Fifty Shades of Late Capitalism\" href=\"http:\/\/critical-theory.com\/read-me-fifty-shades-of-late-capitalism\/\">http:\/\/critical-theory.com\/read-me-fifty-shades-of-late-capitalism\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something fun to read: \u201c\u2026What Fifty Shades of Grey offers is an extreme vision of late-capitalist deliverance, the American (wet) dream on performance-enhancing drugs. Just as magazines such as Penthouse, Playboy, Chic, and Oui (speaking of aspirational names) have effectively equated the moment of erotic indulgence with the ultimate consumer release, a totem of the final elevation into amoral privilege, James\u2019s trilogy represents the latest installment in the commodified sex genre. The money shot is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}