You know what, fuck it. I spent a good portion of my philosophical career working on the metaphysical underpinnings that allow Kondo to speak of objects sparking joy. In my view, the responses to her method, and "sparking joy" specifically, are grounded in piles of orientalism.
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To be clear, the rejection of "sparking joy" is grounded in a western rejection of any metaphysic that privileges the affective connection with the world over reducing the world to objects of knowledge. Specifically, objects of scientific (or discursive) knowledge.
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