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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 | + | winter, without |
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Patio bonfires worth looking into. | Patio bonfires worth looking into. | ||
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- | Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). | ||
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- | Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, | ||
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 | + | - 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 | + | - the facility of the food item to reveal |
+ | 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:// | ||
- 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, | - seasonality, | ||
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- | 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 | + | Customer receipts |
- | source | + | |
- | 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/ | + | 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:// |
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:// | + | See Gleaning, François Millet 1857 http:// |
+ | to instead articulate a richer picture of the world the product moves through. | ||
+ | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. | ||
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* Other Information | * Other Information | ||
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Economy of miniaturisation / smallscale. Enables hosting small batches/ | Economy of miniaturisation / smallscale. Enables hosting small batches/ | ||
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+ | * Localness | ||
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+ | 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 | * Suppliers | ||
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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. | ||
- | | + | * Basics: Feral Trade staples start menu. |
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+ | - Coffee from El Salvador | ||
+ | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | ||
+ | - Cola from Bristol. | ||
+ | - Salt from Gujarat | ||
+ | - Zaytoun olive oil and other products http:// | ||
- | Feral Trade staples start menu. | + | * Other organisational contenders |
- | - Coffee from El Salvador | + | |
- | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | + | |
- | - Cola from Bristol. | + | |
- | - Salt from Gujarat | + | |
- | - Zaytoun olive oil and other products | + | |
- | http:// | + | |
- | http:// | + | |
- | Other organisational contenders | + | |
- | | + | - Mejor Vida Corporation, |
- | - Mejor Vida Corporation, | + | - Irational.org, |
- | - Irational.org, | + | |
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