Marie Kondo and the Joy of Things: Affective Discourses of Housekeeping

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 CULTURAL STUDIES

Cultural Critique Pub Date : 2023-05-03 DOI:10.1353/cul.2023.0023

Kristin M. Swenson

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract:This essay argues that the discourses of love and affective attachments are remapped from our primary social relationships onto our household objects, providing further insight into our current crisis of social reproduction. Turning to Marie Kondo's widely circulated imperative to retain only those objects (socks, furniture, household goods) that "spark joy," and to cultivate affective attachment to those objects, this essay explores the directive toward intense consumerism as a means to manage personal and cultural anxieties during times of neoliberal precarity.

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近藤麻理惠与事物的乐趣:家务的情感话语

摘要:本文认为，爱和情感依恋的话语从我们的主要社会关系重新映射到我们的家庭物品上，为我们当前的社会再生产危机提供了进一步的见解。近藤麻里惠(Marie Kondo)广为流传的观点是，只保留那些“能带来快乐”的物品(袜子、家具、家居用品)，并培养对这些物品的情感依恋。本文探讨了在新自由主义不稳定时期，将强烈消费主义作为一种管理个人和文化焦虑的手段。

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期刊介绍： Cultural Critique provides a forum for international and interdisciplinary explorations of intellectual controversies, trends, and issues in culture, theory, and politics. Emphasizing critique rather than criticism, the journal draws on the diverse and conflictual approaches of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, political economy, and hermeneutics to offer readings in society and its transformation.