Notes towards the first draft

bioluddites are for:

• social critique of biotechnology
• biotechnology that increases quality of food and life
• keeping track of the big picture
• nurturing and prevention in small changed over quick fixes and questionable cures (small & everyday over large revolutionary)
• knowledge that can increase our control influence over everyday biotechnology
• biotechnology on the human scale

bioluddites are for more clarity about:

• the scope and edges of the biotech sphere
• long term social implications of biotechnology

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

• antibiotic resistance
• cliches of nostalgic 'nature' mirage
• the industrialisation of the organic ethos
• 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
• solutionism
• mindless exploitation of the environment
• patented names for food that have perfectly usable folk names

be aware & in control of biotechnologies in your daily life

• society and the environment come first, biotechnology is secondary
• * be critical of the power structures biotechnology is used within

* demand transparency of supply chains (weather * cherish openness of sources (and willingness to research them)

• seek out authenticity of lifestyles and supply chains for field or lab grown food), including food labelling
• 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

take good care of yourself

• choose quality over quantity - in your lifespan, food and healthcare
• augment and extend your senses and communicate with appearance
• 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
• proper food is medicine, be selective about nutriceuticals

bioluddites are social animals

• all biotechnology has a potential to be social
• bioluddites are sympathetic to the needs of modern day life
• decypher convoluted biotech information & instruction for those in need

bioluddites live with their environment

• be at the frontier of embracing climate weirding
• be adaptable and flexible to change
• embrace the contrast of man-made and nature grown, as this is reality

bioluddites' embodiment of purpose:

• lifestyle moral police in regards to 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

what do bioluddites do:

• practice and/or promoting holistic personalised medicine/wellbeing
• promote social network of peer-to-peer healthcare networks
• create experiences rather than preaching
• teach hunting and foraging skills
• reappropriate media mental pollution devices
• tweak popular imagination
• organise social gatherings
• hold regular open house events
• point to biotech glitches
• any tools of bioluddism should be used on the go
• non-symbolic action
• curate biotechnology for a range of lifestyles
• hold pop-up bioluddite clinics
• hold retreats from biotechnology
• practice bioluddite coaching
• promote patience by making use of people's 'wasted' time

• 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

rights:

obligations:

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