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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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    Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims.    Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims.
  
 +   * Stock Options
 +
 +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 [[uk_premises_regulations|regulatory perimeters]] +   - shelf life: avoid sales incentive or waste 
-   - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste +   - the facility of the food item to reveal information ((The commodity,    
-   - the facility of the food item to [[common_products|reveal information]] including+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.
 +   - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters
    - seasonality, including transportation seasons    - seasonality, including transportation seasons
    - locality    - locality
- 
-  * Information 
  
     All cafe goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu).      All cafe 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.+  * Information
  
-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  +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;  
-and one that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture  +to articulate a broader picture of the world the product moves through. 
-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))propagates;  +
-to instead articulate a richer picture of the world the product moves through. +
 [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. [[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.+  * Other Menu Information 
 + 
 +[[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. 
 + 
 +Cafe receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, alongside the date and price of purchase.
  
    * Reciprocity    * Reciprocity
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    * Seasonality    * 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.+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   * Localness
  
    Expand the notion of localness beyond the territorial boundaries of the village     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 +   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.     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' food projects, social connections to city farms or allotments, home cultivation  +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. 
-(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://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.               
  
    * 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+   * Basics: Feral Trade staples start menu.  
 + 
 +      - Coffee from El Salvador 
 +      - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) 
 +      - 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
  
-    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://zaytoun.org / local distributors at  +
-      http://www.zaytoun.org/index.php/sellers/#London+
  
-     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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