THINKING WITH ROY AND ŽIŽEK ON THE FREEDOM OF A FORCED COVID-19 ‘NEW NORMAL’

The increasing imagination of crisis within the contemporary scene is set state emergency that Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this background, there problem redefining conditions normality. paper aims to take some insights about how think through predicament from Arundhati Roy and Slavoj Žižek who are, authors deemed, subversives against normal regulatory course thought. To do this, study applies method textual hermeneutics on both thinker’s oeuvre, particularly those relate pandemic specifically Roy’s AZADI Žižek’s Pa(ndem)ic! 1 2, contextualizes their energetic radical visions one co-authors’ compiled takes various cases during COVID-19. paper’s reading, which attempts succinctly open a leeway for such by aligning implications with thinkers’ views thinking forward enacting possibilities, resolve love notion forced choice can be reflected in traversing inevitable portal ‘New Normal.’