Notes towards the first draft

bioluddites are for:

• social critique of biotechnology
• biotechnology that increases quality of food and life
• small changes and tweaks in daily life
• keeping track of the big picture
• nurturing and prevention over quick fixes and questionable cures
• knowledge that can increase our control influence over everyday biotechnology

* biotechnology on the human scale

bioluddites are for more clarity about:

• the benefits and difficulties of urban farming
• the scope and edges of the biotech sphere
• long term social implications of biotechnology

bioluddites want to empower people to make informed choices about useing biotechnology in their everyday life and beging critical about:

• antibiotic resistance and the collapse of the meat and dairy production
• the industrialisation of the organic
• overspecialisation and monoculture (in farming and society)
• footprint of meat and other foodstuffs
• (drinkable) water availability

bioluddites are against:

• control of biotechnology beyond human scale
• mystification of biotechnology that unrealistically gets people's hopes up
• wasteful eating of endangered species
• solutionism

be aware of the (impact of) biotechnology in daily life

• be in control of biotechnologies in your daily life
• be critical of the power structures biotechnology is used within
• society and the environment come first, biotechnology is secondary
• seek out authenticity of lifestyles and supply chains
• demand transparency of supply chains (weather for field or lab grown food), including food labelling
• cherish openness of sources (and willingness to research them)
• biotechnology should be developed and used on a human scale
• fuel production should not be in conflict with food production
• beware of short-termism and reductionism in production and distribution of GMOs
• refuse to use patented names for food that have perfectly usable folk names
• bioluddite is a pragmatist, an 'atheist fundamentalist' when it comes to biotechnologies that grow bigger than the human scale and begin transcending into the mythical

cultivate yourself

• choose quality over quantity - in your lifespan, food and healthcare
• augment and extend your animal senses
• embrace principles of anti-fragility
• take good care of yourself; pay attention to the sensual experience of self and others
• keep yourself 'relateable'

you are what you eat

• be mindful of food
• expand the edible spectrum (what can be edible but isn't considered food in mainstream food culture - insects, waste, parasites…)
• how food looks matters
• meat is a luxury product
• food should be as cheap as possible, but no cheaper
• food is medicine
• selectively approach nutriceuticals

bioluddites are social animals

• all biotechnology has a potential to be social
• bioluddites are sympathetic to the needs of modern day life
• try to eat with others
• decypher convoluted biotech information & instruction for those in need (such as nutritional labels)
• bioluddites' actions slot seamlessly into everyday life, rather than distrupting it

bioluddites live with their environment

• be at the frontier of embracing climate weirding
• develop empathy, sensing and communication with non-human species
• be adaptable and flexible to adapt to changing conditions
• value the contrast of man-made and nature grown, use the contrast to verify that you live in reality and not the myth

bioluddites' embodiment of purpose:

• lifestyle moral police in regards to biotechnology
• maintaining principles of nomadism in a modern (globalised) world
• demystification of biotechnology
• quantified self as a part of the food and health supply chains (you are not separate from your food and waste)
• Bioluddites are role models: living examples and embodiments of their principles
• promote slowness by making use of people's 'wasted' time

what do bioluddites do:

• practice and/or promoting holistic personalised medicine/wellbeing (originating in traditions like TCM and TAM, rather than a computer)
• promote social network of peer-to-peer healthcare networks
• create immersive experiences (and experience prototypes), rather than preaching
• teach hunting and foraging skills
• infiltrate mental pollution devices
• tweak popular imagination
• organise social gatherings
• hold regular open houses
• frame and point to biotech glitches, using popular media
• practice the art of conversation
• create mobile kits and tools of bioluddism to recruit and share skills on the go
• non-symbolic action and ambient critique of biotechnology
• curate biotechnology for a range of lifestyles
• hold pop-up bioluddite clinics
• hold retreats from biotechnology
• practice bioluddite coaching
• create parodies of real life in the state/military-industrial complex
• bioluddites can be holistic guides to help you ensure ethical continuity along the whole supply chain

• governance structure: network of pyramids?
• the bioluddite oath (…)
• flexible prenominated, public fines for self discipline, if you choose to act against bioluddite principles
• recruiting: customers, potential and future bioluddites

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