Forward
Two communes — one in Central France in the 1920s and the other in the Netherlands today. Despite the century between them, the ideals on which they were founded and the obstacles they face are not substantially different. In both cases, the individual members struggle to submit themselves to the collective.
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Voorwaarts
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Eva Meijer
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[…] the power of 'Forward' lies in Meijer’s seriousness, her thoughtful, sensitive touch. In the tenderness with which she describes “that constant resistance called love,” there’s an uncontrollable, anarchistic urge for independence and a sense of freedom. She mixes essayistic passages about manifesto and revolution with more sensual sentences about the physical torments of earthly farm life and the confusing longings for a loved one.
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Eva Meijer plays an unparalleled and light-hearted game with the philosophical theories of Kropotkin, Bakounin and Proudhons. At the same time, she fictionalises the lives of a number of prominent French anarchists from the beginning of the twentieth century (including Sophie Zaïkowska, Georges Butaud and Louis Rimbault).
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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.