Disruption reflects on those characteristics of the contemporary era, which would reach their maximum exponent from March 2020, with the crisis generated by COVID19.

In this way, it speaks of the loneliness experienced in the quarantine months, of how isolation hinders interaction with the environment, despite having it in front of him, generating a disruption between the environment and the subject. In this sense, the environment is not simply a setting in which the subjects develop, but in many aspects the environment participates in the construction of the identity of its subjects. Clothing, as well as other aesthetic factors, would reflect in a certain way this interaction between medium and subject that results in the conformation of different identities, for that reason, nudity would draw that lack of participation of the environment in the life of the subject.

But isolation has not only meant a disruption with respect to the physical environment, sociability has also been affected by quarantines and safety distance, both at a micro level, with the people who make up our daily social network, and in a sense macro, referring to the power elites that pull the strings.

The ways of exercising have been, throughout history, as diverse as they are constant, from the imperial trajectories to the power repertoires of the current nation-states, different rulers have sought and executed multiple maneuvers that allowed them to exercise control over the ruled masses. Thus, following the idea of the shock doctrine of Naomi Klein, we can find how moments of crisis, such as the one we are currently experiencing, have been used in favor of these forms of execution of power and control mechanisms, taking advantage of the strong impact that these they would suppose in the psychology of the society to force the approval of measures that, in other contexts, would be unpopular.

The states of alarm, applied in extreme and prolonged ways, have meant that decision-making remains in the hands of a very small part of the population. If, for 50 years, the forms of government have been moving further and further away from the democratic spirit of the mid-twentieth century, in this last year the few crumbs of what would be a real democracy have ended up being exhausted.

In this context, economic absolutism has found its place for a last push, stronger and with worse consequences. The hyper-reality of which Baudrillard spoke has become more evident than ever, the mass media have substituted face-to-face conversation for a long period of time, favoring the abstract of communicative dynamics to rise to its maximum exponent, feeding the illusion that technology could be a safeguard for real sociability and feeding the simulation of the contemporary world in which the priority would be the representation and not the represented. In Baudrillard's hyperreal world, these repertoires of power would include the creation of the abstract models to which practical reality adapts, in the same way that for Carrier and Miller's virtualism, the elites who exercise control order social reality starting from theoretical ideas, this would cause a weariness, a disruption between the level of the high elites that configure the norms of our social life and those who move on the experimental level and assume the consequences.


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