AtsomepointthissummerIenteredtheworldofKoreansilentvlogsandneverleft.I'm obviously not the only one. Some of these vloggers have millions of subscribers. Lots of articles have started popping up in the last few months of others getting lost in the calm sea of these videos. They'reallwomen-vloggersandwatchersalike.Idon’tknowwhattomakeofthat.
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Here's a quote from Kristin Ross'sessayTheFrenchQuotidianfromthebookTheEveryday,editedbyStephenJohnstone:
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"Sometime in 1946, the French philosopher Henri Lefebvre discovered the quotidian. He discovered it, that is, in the sense that he proclaimed that most insignificant of categories, the everyday, to be worthy of theoretical attention. And he went on to spend the next several decades, until his death in 1991, paying very close attention to that rapidly changing and elusive phenomenon. [...] Certainly the everyday consisted of that which is taken for granted: the sequence of regular, unvarying repetition. But in that very triviality and baseness lay its seriousness, in the poverty and tedium of the routine lay the potential for creative energy. After all, people do not make revolutions because of abstract ideological principles; they make them because they want to change their lives."
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Sincereadingthis,I've come to think of these routine vlogs as revolutionary in their own way. We'reledtothinkthatourlivesneedtobeextraordinary,weneedtoleavesomesortofmarkontheworld,thatwhatwedoneedstomatter.Surelythethingswedoaroundthehousedon't fall into the category of things that matter. We split our days between things we need to do and things we want to do, and those two categories look completely different. I'mawarethatmyargumentmaylooklikeaglorificationofhousework,butthat's not the point I'mtryingtomake.Ithinkthecareweputintoeventhesmallestoftasksinfluencesthewaywerelatetoourenvironment,andtheemotionsweassociatewithdifferentactivitiesthatwedo.
