“One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.” RealGivenFiguresProductsOppositesFunctionMarkProductionsIdeologicalProliferationInvert Author:Michel Foucault
“To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on the ground. Actually, what we need is the exact opposite of what GMOs give us. We have to empower farmers to grow food for themselves and plant and grow their own seeds and use practices to deal with weeds and the need for fertility, not from purchased products like a seed or a chemical, but from their own farms, from their own knowledge and skill sets.” NeedsGivingFactsUseOrderGrowsDealsPracticeTechnologyProduceProductsSkillsOppositesBlindPlantHungerSeedsArguingEmpoweringWeedFarmsChemicalsFarmersFertilityGmos Author:Anna Lappe
“I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.” WayKindActionExistenceWrittenProductsPerspectiveEssentialsEssenceOppositesArguingOne WayExistentialist Author:Zadie Smith