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 Practical Practical
  
-1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond (an industrial estate in the residential London borough of Haringey http://www.haringey.gov.uk) from the point of view of its public. A cafe would offer visitors something to chew on alongside the art: sustenance and conviviality, enriched space for contemplation, information and reading, and the oppportunity to elongate their visit.+1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond (an industrial estate in the residential London area of Haringey http://www.haringey.gov.uk) from the point of view of its public. A cafe would offer visitors something to chew on alongside the art: sustenance and conviviality, enriched space for contemplation, information and reading, and the oppportunity to elongate their visit.
  
 2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is changing - incoming small business and studios - the cafe would be an interface to that. A means of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery.  2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is changing - incoming small business and studios - the cafe would be an interface to that. A means of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. 
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     activities and how you get from A to B.      activities and how you get from A to B. 
     Even at this small scale it has a polemic value.     Even at this small scale it has a polemic value.
-[[feral_trade_economy]] +  
 +((Feral Trade relies on a moving network of social connections for the transportation of goods. Trade managed through an intricate time-space-personal system covering thousands of miles, linking hundreds of people, like the Trobriand islanders of yore. The orderly distribution of goods via a variety of motives, of which gain is not prominent.))
  
 Economic Economic
  
 Profit is not a necessary motive - which opens up the operating territory considerably. Profit is not a necessary motive - which opens up the operating territory considerably.
-Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide surplus for office consumption. +Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide a heady surplus for office consumption. Seed funding will be required for start-up equipment and utensils: HTTP or external.
-Seed funding will be required for start-up equipment and utensils: HTTP or external.+
  
    feral trade:Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms.    feral trade:Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms.
-   It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort, excluding it from basic  +   It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort which excludes it from 
-   market measures of success. The investment is in the network. +   basic market measures of success. The investment is in the network. 
    
   * hours of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan    * hours of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan 
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 There is no cafe between the tube and HTTP although it is possible to take a  There is no cafe between the tube and HTTP although it is possible to take a 
 detour to Costa Coffee, a commercial chain in the business mall on Green Lanes.  detour to Costa Coffee, a commercial chain in the business mall on Green Lanes. 
-Portuguese cafe in the other direction has cheap and good espresso and a mainly Portuguese clientele.+Portuguese cafe in the other direction has good cheap espresso and a mainly Portuguese clientele.
  
 The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows.
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 Library visitor numbers are low but it's the intensity of the experience that counts. Library visitor numbers are low but it's the intensity of the experience that counts.
     http: It would be a coup to overcome London geography and keep the cafe open in      http: It would be a coup to overcome London geography and keep the cafe open in 
-    winter. Without affecting global warming. +    winter, without affecting global warming. 
          
 Patio bonfires worth looking into. Patio bonfires worth looking into.
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    Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims.    Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims.
  
-Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). +   * Stock Options
  
-Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, alongside the date and price of purchase.+All menu items should be also available in bulk, where possible.  
 +Stock selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Considerations include:
  
-Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Stock considerations include: +   - shelf life: avoid sales incentive or waste 
- +   - the facility of the food item to reveal information ((The commodity,    
-   - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters [[uk_premises_regulations]] +as object produced for sale on the market, conceals its relationships  
-   - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste +except for the money relation. The product of the commons is filled with  
-   - the facility of the food item to [[common_products|host information]], including+human relations, including possibly unpleasant ones (Peter Linebaugh). 
 +Commoning produces social relations in the form of commons, freely associated humanity.   
 +Sarai Reader http://osdir.com/ml/culture.india.sarai.reader/2006-06/msg00073.html)) including
    - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce    - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce
    - information on carriage, network and delivery relations embodied by courier/s.    - information on carriage, network and delivery relations embodied by courier/s.
 +   - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters
    - seasonality, including transportation seasons    - seasonality, including transportation seasons
-   - localness+   - locality
  
-   Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorial boundaries of the village  +    All cafe goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). 
-   or nation state, to a model more accurate for the world HTTP works in: a shared set of  +
-   connections and navigable transit routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet. +
  
-   * Fairness+  * Information
  
-Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included, along with their  +Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included on the menu, along with  their product information. The main thing is to expand the product monologue beyond simple boasting and purity fetishes (eg. the truth claims, elevated origins and destinies - gourmet, organic, health - promoted by fresh and wild style packaging http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products); or the homogenous landscape of happy farmers that Fair Trade propagates ((an image set that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture labour as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue. See Gleaning, François Millet 1857 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm)) http://feraltrade.org/fair;  
-source information. The main thing is to expand the product monologue to articulate a  +to articulate a broader picture of the world the product moves through. 
-larger picture of the world it moves through - see+
 [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example.
 + 
  
-Fair Trade in comparison limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of the farmer/producer - a restricted landscape - http://feraltrade.org/fair +  * Other Menu Information
-and one that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture  +
-labour as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue.  +
-Gleaning: François Millet 1857 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm+
  
-Feral Trade takes food-labeling as an opportunity for diverse communications as  opposed to righteous boasting and the promotion of purity fetishes, such as the truth claims elevated origins and destinies (gourmet, organic, fairdom, health) propagated by the likes of fresh and wild. +[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: Menu also to include items and incidents in the transit of cash preformed for the goods' procurement: particularly obstacles, as the materiality of money in small quantities generally defies the idea of smooth movement of finance across global networks.
-http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products+
  
-[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: The cafe menu to also include itemisations in the transit of cash as witnessed in the goods' procurement: particularly obstacles, as the materiality of money in small quantities generally defies the idea of the smooth movement of finance across global networks.+Cafe receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, alongside the date and price of purchase. 
 + 
 +   * Reciprocity
  
 Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute  Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute 
 menu items via peddling stock (sale, trade or gift). menu items via peddling stock (sale, trade or gift).
  
-Economy of miniaturisation / smallscale. Enables hosting small batches/single items, ultra short seasons and microclimates.Menu should be easily updated and transmitted (database-driven) and include out of stock items - wishlisted, in negotiation or pending delivery.+   * Seasonality 
 + 
 +Economy of miniaturisation. Enables hosting small batches/single items, ultra short seasons and microclimates. Menu format should be easily updated and transmitted (database-driven) and include out of stock items - wishlisted, in negotiation or pending delivery. 
 + 
 +  * Localness 
 + 
 +   Expand the notion of localness beyond the territorial boundaries of the village  
 +   or nation state, to more closely replicate the worlds HTTP works in. A shared set  
 +   of connections and navigable routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet.  
 + 
 +    * Suppliers 
 + 
 +Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' food projects, cultivate agrisocial relations with city farms / allotments, rural family connections, home cultivation to procure cake, jams, herbs, sprouts etc.  
 + 
 +   * Delivery
  
 Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP  Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP 
-to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Documenting these journeys and relationships expands attention to food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation  +to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones, and document this process via the Feral Trade Courier database, http://feraltrade.org.  
-of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. Promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign.               +Actively promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign.               
  
-Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' food projects, social connections to city farms or allotments, home cultivation  +   * Regulations
-(cake, jams, herbs, sprouts etc). +
        
 Regulatory limits: Define and stock emergency food products; define emergency; outer limits of biscuit; cream teas.  Regulatory limits: Define and stock emergency food products; define emergency; outer limits of biscuit; cream teas. 
  
-    Feral Trade staples start menu.  +   * Basics: Feral Trade staples start menu.  
-    - Coffee from El Salvador + 
-    - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) +      - Coffee from El Salvador 
-    - Cola from Bristol. +      - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) 
-    - Salt from Gujarat+      - Cola from Bristol. 
 +      - Salt from Gujarat 
 +      - Zaytoun olive oil and other products http://zaytoun.org / local distributors at http://www.zaytoun.org/index.php/sellers/#London 
 + 
 +   * Other organisational contenders
  
-     Other organisational contenders +      - http://fo.am Brussels. Grappa, Latvian cured meats, computer chocolate biscuits. 
-    - Fo.am Brussels. Grappa, Latvian cured meats, computer chocolate biscuits. +      - Mejor Vida Corporation, Mexico City. Hot chocolate 
-    - Mejor Vida Corporation, Mexico City. Hot chocolate +      - Irational.org, Bristol. Food for Free apple mush 
-    - Irational.org, Bristol. Food for Free apple mush +
  
    Challenge fresh+wild to a duel.    Challenge fresh+wild to a duel.
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