Don't Confuse This With Absence
In this essay, Eva Meijer maps out the different kinds of political silences and, in an original and informed way, marks out the moral dilemmas that are hardly ever discussed in the heated (social) media debate.
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Original title
Verwar het niet met afwezigheid
Author
Eva Meijer
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‘Writing concisely, philosopher and NRC columnist Eva Meijer casts herself as a spokesperson for silence. She says: not all silences are the same, just as listening and remaining silent are not the same thing.’
NRC
Eva Meijer
Eva Meijer (b. 1980) is a writer and philosopher. Their extensive oeuvre, which includes the international bestselling novel Bird Cottage (2016), is much praised in the international media. Meijer received the Erasmus Dissertation prize for The Soldier Was A Dolpin: On Polical Animals (2017) and went on to garner the Halewijn prize for their literary oeuvre, and the Hypatia philosophy prize. Their work frequently addresses language and politics in the animal world. Meijer currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, writes essays and columns for Dutch newspapers and is a member of the Multispecies Collective.