This article aims to explore the relationship between symbolic action and critical junctures by looking at early responses to the Covid-19 epidemics that broke out in Italy in late February and March 2020. In this regard, Italy's lockdown in the context of the Covid-19’s pandemic that shook the world in Spring 2020 provide material for an analysis of what happens of the relationship between processes of meaning-making and the alignment to an emerging and progressively more generalized disaster culture in an extreme condition in which the room for symbolic action becomes more and more limited. I argue that the new politics of performance that was shaped during the lockdown, with huge limitations both to the spaces of expression and to the morality of performance, can be analyzed effectively in order to to gain insight on the collective dimension of social life in a case in which there is a programmatic, top-down intervention on one of the crucial requisites for the production of symbolic action, namely, the co-presence of participants. Keywords Cultural Sociology; Social Performance; Scripts; Covid-19; Contemporary Italy Funding This article was supported with funds from the “SOCDIST” strategic project of the University of Trento, 2020-2022.

本文旨在通过观察对 2020 年 2 月下旬和 2020 年 3 月在意大利爆发的 Covid-19 流行病的早期反应来探讨象征性行动与关键时刻之间的关系。在这方面，意大利在 Covid-19 疫情背景下的封锁2020 年春季震惊世界的大流行病提供了材料，用于分析在象征性行动的空间变得更大的极端条件下，意义创造过程与与新兴且逐渐普遍化的灾难文化之间的关系发生了什么并且更加有限。我认为，在封锁期间形成的新的表演政治对表达空间和表演道德都有很大的限制，可以有效地进行分析，以便在对产生象征性行动的关键必要条件之一（即共同存在）进行有计划的、自上而下的干预的情况下，深入了解社会生活的集体维度的参与者。关键词文化社会学；社会绩效；脚本；新冠肺炎; 当代意大利基金 本文得到了特伦托大学 2020-2022 年“SOCDIST”战略项目的资金支持。