In today’s blog – the follow up to yesterday’s post – Missi Formation (sometimes known as Christine) brings us back to the book that we are supposed to be re-enacting – The JAMs’ 2023: A trilogy. Revelations aplenty. Thanks Missi for helping us komply with The KLFRS’s rules – to recreate, reposition, destroy or destruct: are you sure that you’re really an anarkist?
Angharad found herself in the little bar, sharing in conversations on Anarky. She wondered why we aren’t all anarkists, and settled on the idea that was related to empathy (see table 2.3).
Angharad asked the name of the fellow anarkist she was talking to. Tat’jana reached out her hand and introduced herself. Angharad wondered if this was the friend her mother Kristina had been desperately seeking since they were separated at a rave back in the 90s. She realised there had been false rumours about Kristina and Tat’jana being bandied about, especially the one about the submarine. She knew that was just nonsense that the KLF had made up.
Angharad and Tat’jana spoke for some time before Angharad braved the conversation. She was looking for reference points that would tie her with memories from her mother’s stories. She knew her mum had the old sound system in her barn, the size of a small aircraft hangar, in Wales. She also had the big Triptych projektion skreen, the old trusty Edirol mixer and a stack of old DVD players.
Angharad was aware that she could not hang around for too long, she still had plans to meet up with Little Grapefruit one day soon. Angharad skratched her grapefruit brow, thinking hard of a way she could summarise what this Tat’jana had told her so far, could she use the K-Konjekture formula? Angharad was not sure if it was the akcent that made it sound like Tat’jana was using K’s to replace the C’s. She did realise in these Baltic regions – and indeed for most of Eastern Europe and further afield – they preferred a good kicking K to a C.
Turning to Tat’jana to pose the question, Angharad spotted the little ice-kream tattoo on Tat’jana’s wrist. It was the same as the one her mother has. They got them on a day trip to New Brighton after hanging out on the film set for Letter to Brezhnev. The JAMs later stole the Ice-Kream and K idea.
It was her!
Angharad gasped!
Tat’jana offered another drink of vodka and a slice of lard, Angharad refused.
Angharad wondered for a moment what her mother Kristina would think about being reunited with Tat’jana. She knew she had been desperately seeking her, but did she really want to get the band back together? It was after all 2023 and possibly too late for the Christmas number 1 entry.
| ANARKY | EMPATHY |
| Community living | Caring for your neighbours |
| Self-sufficiency | Sharing what you have grown and not harming the environment |
| Mutual Aid | Solidarity or empathy for those who are treated unfairly is considered to be a form of natural morality – Kropotkin |
| The glue that binds us all together | Empathy is seen as a glue that helps society stay together and not degenerate into a war of all-against-all |
| Revolutionary organising | Beyond notions of solidarity lies empathy, the practice of people deeply listening to and understanding one another in a very real and fundamental way |
| Konnections | Without empathy, the Konnections between people that need to be made in order to effectively challenge the alienation and atomisation inherent in Kapitalism and institutional authority will not happen |
4 December 2023
Each of the intrepid explorers of the GANTOBverse have provided 400 words about the characters introduced in the first GANTOB book (published September 2023) and this blog. In return they will be sent a kopy of the book of this blog (planned for publikation 23 January 2024). Each household can provide up to three blogs. You can still provide a kontribution, as long as you have an excuse for late submission.
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