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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
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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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    Coincide with HTTP core curatorial principles    Coincide with HTTP core curatorial principles
    Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims.    Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims.
- 
-Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu).  
- 
-Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, alongside the date and price of purchase. 
  
 Stock selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Considerations include: Stock selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Considerations include:
  
-   - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters [[uk_premises_regulations]]+   - compliance with or skirting the [[uk_premises_regulations|regulatory perimeters]]
    - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste    - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste
-   - the facility of the food item to [[common_products|host information]], including+   - the facility of the food item to reveal information ((The commodity,    
 +as object produced for sale on the market, conceals its relationships  
 +except for the money relation. The product of the commons is filled with  
 +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.
    - seasonality, including transportation seasons    - seasonality, including transportation seasons
-   - localness+   - locality
  
-   Expand the notion of localness beyond the territorial boundaries of the village  +  * Information
-   or nation state, to more closely replicate the world HTTP works in: a shared set  +
-   of connections and navigable routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet. +
  
-   * Fairness+    All cafe goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). 
  
-Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included, along with their  +Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, alongside the date and price of purchase.
-source information. The main thing is to expand the product monologue beyond simple boasting and the promotion of purity fetishes (such as the truth claims, elevated origins and destinies - gourmet, organic, fairdom, health - promoted by fresh and wild style packaging http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products) to instead articulate a  +
-larger picture of the world the product moves through.  +
-[[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example.+
  
-Fair Trade, in comparison, focuses its product communiques on the icon of the farmer/producer - [[http://feraltrade.org/fair|a homogenous landscape]]  +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 the promotion of purity fetishes (such as 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 ((Fair Trade focuses its product communiques on the icon of the farmer/producer - http://feraltrade.org/fair - a homogenous landscape 
 and one that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture  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.  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+See Gleaning, François Millet 1857 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm))propagates;  
 +to instead articulate a richer picture of the world the product moves through.  
 +[[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. 
 +  
 +  * Other Information
  
 +[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: The cafe menu to also 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 the smooth movement of finance across global networks.
  
-[[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.+   * 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 / smallscale. 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 world 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, social connections to city farms or allotments, home cultivation  
 +(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 
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 of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. Promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign.                of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. 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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