ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that in order to come to terms with the ambiguity of Vandana Shiva's argument and standpoint, decolonial perspective should be complemented with a postcolonial one. It points out the problems that occur when farmers' opinions are sampled through a focus on what they literally say, rather than an analysis of what structures and conditions their 'voice'. This argument will then be enriched through an elaboration on Gilles Deleuze's metaphysics of transformation, particularly by looking at the distinction that Deleuze makes between the 'sayable' and the 'statement', between 'perception' and 'visibility', and how he and Felix Guattari conceptualise 'regimes of signs'. Using the different ontology that emerges out of Deleuze's metaphysics in dialogue with decolonial critique, the chapter provides a fuller understanding of what is at stake in the Indian bacillus thuringiensis cotton controversy, concluding with some concrete suggestions about how to move forward in anti-genetically modified organism’s activism.
