Does it spark joy? That’s the criterion Marie Kondo has set for deciding which personal belongings to keep, and which to relinquish. Maureen Ryan [1] considers Kondo’s decluttering method and her television show in the context of pervasive burnout and insecurity.

Richard Grusin, ed., Insecurity [2] University of Minnesota Press, 2022

Maureen Ryan, Lifestyle Media in American Culture: Gender, Class, and the Politics of Ordinariness [3] Routledge, 2018

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[1] https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/visual_art_and_design/our_people/directory/ryan_maureen.php

[2] https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/insecurity

[3] https://www.routledge.com/Lifestyle-Media-in-American-Culture-Gender-Class-and-the-Politics-of/Ryan/p/book/9781138206465