DISRUPTIVE, DISORDERLY, DISTURBING, TROUBLESOME AND PROVOCATIVE ARE SYNONYMS AT SOME POINT. However, they also refer to different things.

 

Disruption: Disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity or process

Disturbance: The interruption of a settled and peaceful condition

Disorder: A state of confusion

Trouble: Difficulty or problems

Provocation: Action or speech that makes someone angry, especially deliberately

 

What do their antonyms have in common?

Disruptive ≠ calming, setting, disciplined, well-behaved

Disturbing ≠ comforting, pleasing, delightful

Disorderly ≠ ordered, organized, conforming

Troublesome ≠ safe, manageable, beneficial

Provocative ≠ pleasing, unstimulating

 

To make something become disruptive, we previously need a continuum characterized by providing CALM, HARMONY and PEACE. Disruption has to do with A VIOLENT INTERRUPTION of this calm.

 

PEACE, HARMONY and CALM have to do with social agreements, conventions and expectations. It has to do with normativity and being comfortable and safe by being as we are. Not even questioning the rules we inhabit. Peace is the absence of questioning things.

 

Can a disruptive body / object become normalized? Can disruption become pleasing, organized, ordered, calming?

 

Can disruption happen in chaos? Would order become a disruption in a world of chaos?

 

Are not all disruptions provocative? Do not they make us angry because we lose our passive state of calm and peace, our passive state of letting it be? Do not they produce a reaction on each of us, whether we want it or not? Can disruption be unprovocative? Really?

 

Disruption is arrhythmia, dissonance, unintelligibility, challenge.

 

It is noise in a world of silence and silence in a world of noise. Or both in a world of confusion.

 

We embody, enact, perform and automatize codes, social patterns and certain actions and appearances in order to be understandable. Do we always succeed? Are we finally understood?

 

A disruptive body is a dissident, discordant, incongruous, dissenting, heretical, heterodox, nonconformist body that makes others become uncomfortable when realising the absurdity of being normal, normative, orthodox, docile, coherent, obedient and intelligible.  Animals are disruptive because they do not give a fuck, because they are still free, even though humans try to control them. They cannot lose their dignity. There is always nobleness in their eyes. Their feelings cannot be hypocritically hidden. Their smell cannot be hypocritically hidden. They are intrinsically disruptive because they are impolite. They are not afraid of getting dirty. The disruptive body is the wrong body, the alternative body. The non-body. The one that has not been defined yet. Neither even imagined.

 

Disruptive actions are those we are afraid of.

 

Disruptive objects are out of place and out of time.

 

Metaphors are disruptive because, thanks to them, we question the established meaning of words, the order of words, the grammar of language, and the reasonable way of thinking.

 

Movement is disruptive since we are expected to remain quiet and motionless.

 

Laziness is disruptive in a world of labour.

 

Disruptive bodies are fat, are ugly, are hairy, are old, are ill, are playing, are doing are fucking in love. Love… Yes, love is disruptive because we are not used to having someone so close and willing to say ‘I love you’.

 

Mountains are brutally disruptive in a boring and flat reality.