Abstract

This study presents a contrast between the pessimistic view of the quarantined society, led by thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Paul B. Preciado and Byung-Chul Han, among others, against the model of interpersonal communication of Manuel Martín Algarrar, communicologist and communication theorist of the University of Navarra. This confrontation seeks to evaluate the reasons that support the first position, deepening in its premises and the relations that these maintain with the conclusions reached by these philosophers. For this purpose, the essential characteristics that make up the pessimistic vision of the global quarantine will be defined, and the social challenge that this implies will be presented, characterized by the idea of a subject radically incommunicado and separated from society. The drama of this perspective consists in the fact that, for it, forced isolation responds to vicious objectives and has as a tragic consequence the total dissolution of the social fabric. Martin Algarra's communicative model will be reconstructed, to give an account of the intimate relationship between the interpersonal communicative act and the shaping of society.