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Sparking joy or sparking narcissism? A Western appropriation of the KonMari method
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The authors studied the philosophical consequences of the Westernization of the KonMari method, a tidying method initiated by Japanese professional Marie Kondo that finds popularity in the 1990s and 2000s.Abstract:
This project seeks to understand the philosophical consequences of the Westernization of the KonMari method, a tidying method initiated by Japanese professional Marie Kondo that finds popularity wi...read more
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Divestment as investment: “Kondo-Ing” selves in the context of over accumulation
TL;DR: In the context of overaccumulation, privileged individuals with “cluttered” homes are disposing of their still-valuable possessions as discussed by the authors , and divestment is framed as a means through which individuals can invest in the self, particularly in class position, gender and parental roles, and agency.
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Emotion, attachment, representation, and loss: a comparative study on what it means for objects to “spark joy”
Kirara Nagatsuka,Valerie Manusov +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of spark joy has a long history in Japan but only a brief one in the U.S. as discussed by the authors found that to spark joy generally referenced a positive emotion, though it was more specific for, lyrical, and ingrained in daily life for those from Japan.
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Between Cultural Appreciation and Cultural Appropriation: Self-Authorizing the Consumption of Cultural Difference
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identify four consumer self-authorization strategies: reforming, restraining, recontextualizing, and rationalizing, which rely upon an amalgam of countervailing moral interpretations about acts of consuming difference, informing ideologies about the power relationships between cultures and emergent subject positions that situate the consuming self in relation to others whose differences are packaged for consumption.
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TL;DR: In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity as discussed by the authors, and investigated what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia.
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
John Owen King,Christopher Lasch +1 more
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