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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). | + | * Stock Options |
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- | Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, | + | |
+ | 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: | 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]] | + | - shelf life: avoid sales incentive or waste |
- | - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste | + | - the facility of the food item to reveal |
- | - the facility of the food item to [[common_products|host | + | 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. | ||
+ | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters | ||
- seasonality, | - seasonality, | ||
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- | | + | All cafe goods will be informationalised (onboard |
- | 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 | + | |
- | Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included, along with their | + | Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included |
- | source | + | to articulate a broader |
- | larger | + | |
[[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. | ||
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- | Fair Trade, in comparison, focuses its product communiques on the icon of the farmer/ | + | * 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. | + | |
- | See Gleaning, François Millet 1857 http:// | + | |
- | * Other Information | + | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: |
- | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: | + | Cafe receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent |
* Reciprocity | * Reciprocity | ||
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* Seasonality | * Seasonality | ||
- | Economy of miniaturisation | + | Economy of miniaturisation. Enables hosting small batches/ |
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+ | * Localness | ||
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+ | 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 | * Suppliers | ||
- | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' | + | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' |
- | (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts etc). | + | |
* Delivery | * 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:// |
- | of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. Promote | + | Actively promote |
* Regulations | * Regulations | ||
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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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