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Not Bad For A Girl With No Talent: Leisure As Labor In The Consumption Of Kim Kardashian's Brands

O'Callaghan, Abby
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This thesis argues that Kim Kardashian’s product lines present consumers with leisure labor, a category of consumer identity which manifests under the guise of “self-care” and “me-time.” To recontextualize established assumptions of labor and leisure, I will demonstrate the ways that Kim Kardashian’s own work bleeds into her personal life, setting a precedent for fans to be “always on”. This schema is present in the text of the show, The Kardashians, and in the marketing discourse of their products. Fans are encouraged to experience this approach to “self-care” through her brands, specifically SKKN by Kim, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, and SKIMS. I will thus be analyzing these objects to intervene with popular notions of retail therapy as a break from routine and conclude that it is instead a “self-care” routine which reinforces neoliberal ideals of time and space in which one is always producing surplus value.

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2023-09-14
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Kim Kardashian, Leisure labor, Star studies, Retail media, Reality television, Celebrity brands
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O'Callaghan, Abby. "Not Bad For A Girl With No Talent: Leisure As Labor In The Consumption Of Kim Kardashian's Brands." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2023. https://doi.org/10.57709/36097929
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2023-09-26
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