Agents of Ishq

Text on the card reads:

"BOLE TOH?"

The Chhotu Essay

WITHOUT FANTASY, THERE IS NO LIBERTY

BOLE TOH?

Two individuals stand atop a giant person's head and gaze at a sky filled with various objects floating around. The head is a garden with flowers and grass and plants.

Text on the card reads:

FANTASIES PERVADE OUR WAKING AND SLEEPING LIVES...

sexual fantasies

Imaginary conversations

tragedies

CRASH!!

passing possibilities

brief scenes

recurring thoughts

daydreams

dreams

five act dramas

wet dreams

cyber personalities

alternate realities

fantasy- memories

Films,

art,

poetry,

stories,

music, myths,

record human fantasies over millenia.

This is our internal life - a mixture of two parallel realms of our minds:

fantasy and phantasy.

Bole toh?

Picture of Hrithik Roshan beside a phallic relic. A person looking at a delivery package. Radha-Krishna embracing each other. Front view of a laptop, a porn site is open on it. A person laying on the ground with one eye open.

Text on the card reads:

F SE FANTASY, THE AIR WE BREATHE...

We are sometimes aware of what influences our fantasies of desire....

PHALLIC

RADHA & KRISHNA

myths and stories....

IDEAL BEAUTY

"HERO"

DELIVERY

the market and ads...

TOUCH

FUTURE

www.pornOKplease.com

archetypes and symbols...

LOVE

CAREER

desires for ourselves...

our cultures...

Porn and erotica.

And then there are some other fantasies...

whose origins seem

mysterious and confusing

Bole toh, phantasy

A boy on a boat with a flashlight travels through a dark river. On one side of the river, there is a life line that shows the journey of a baby to a kid to to an adult to an old person.

Text on the card reads:

PH SE PHANTASY, AN UNDERGROUND RIVER...

flowing in our unconscious mind,

RIVER OF PHANTASY

a reservoir of our

thoughts, urges,

desires, feelings, and memories...

throbbing images that seem surreal and even forbidden...

But where does this river begin?

Research shows we fantasize even before we are born, when we are little babies

even at this early age our minds contain a great many thoughts and desires, most of which we never share with others, and many of which we do not fully comprehend."

A 2016 book based on surveys of 23,000 men and women about their sexual fantasies.

A person is depicted in the center. Surrounding them are scattered elements: on the bottom right are graphics representing private life, including family and sexual relationships; on the left are graphics representing public life, such as social media and friends.

Text on the card reads:

TOGETHER, FANTASY AND PHANTASY MAKE US WHO WE ARE...

collective meanings

symbols

myths

societal Traditions

memories

history

feelings

archetypes

COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS

Identity

experience

PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS

FANTASY

LOVE

SOCIAL IDENTITY caste, class, yonder

PHANTASY

DESIRE

HATE

STEREOTYPES

SEX, RELATIONSHIPS

HOME

ENVY

SOCIALS MEDIA

WORK

FRIENDS

DIARY

PUBLIC LIVES

MEDIA

PERSONAL

PRIVATE LIVES

Who we are is a complex mixture of the internal world of fantasies and external world of experiences, the public and the private constantly mixing with each other, remixing each other.

The poster features a colorful and creative collage of thoughts and doodles representing a variety of personal sentiments. People doing different activities like reading, thinking of a proposal idea and being in love

Text on the card reads:

FANTASY PULSES THROUGH OUR LIVES

LIKE A REMIX TRACK

TYSM for this darings I would like to thank my fans, you are my inspiration blah blah

sarry babe, I am in love with sorveene else now. bye buge

MARRY ME?

OMG

randem stranger in the metre

Aaahh...

violence

secrets

Incest

infedility

age gap

nonconsensual

dirty

Many times. going inte labes places in our fantasies can give us a lot of pleas ure, along with some shame and guilt

Along with the melodies and dramas of our fantasies, we am I too weird? might sometimes wander

does anyone else think like this?

am I a bad person?

how can I daydream about semeone so oul of my league?

what would people think of me if they knew..

I'm pathetic

Our fantasies make us feel a spectrum of emotions

PLEASURE

EXCITEMENT

AMUSEMENT

SELF DOUBT

GUILT, SHAME

SELF-HATE

Illustrations of Anais Nin, Edward Said, and Bell Hooks. A phone, on the screen, is a social media app opened up. A Boombox.

Text on the card reads:

MAYBE, REALITY IS ALSO A TYPE OF FANTASY...

Bole toh?

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

(Seduction of the Minotaur, 1961)

Anais Nin.

Realities may be constructed too, like fantasies

Orientalism was a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar (Europe, the West, "us") and the strange (Orient, the East, "them").

- Edward Said, (Orientalism, 1978)

The West

The East

Scrolling through our phones, we imagine the realities of others and our own.

THE MALE FANTASY

Lalata, the straight fantasy, lalala

In popular culture

In all theatres near you!

love is always the stuff of fantasy Maybe this is why men have done mast of the theorizing about love.

Male fantasy is seen as something that can create reality, whereas female fantasy is regarded as pure escape.

- bell hooks (All About Love: New Visions, 1999)

Illustration featuring various speech bubbles filled with text by Neil Gaiman, Susan Block, Ocean Vuong, expressing the role of fantasy in human life, human creativity and thought.

Text on the card reads:

SO, FANTASY HAS A REALLY IMPORTANT JOB

Bole toh?

FANTASY-CV

SKILLS

Imagination

Transgressing

Hobbies

scandalizing

chilling

sexy fime

-creating

The wise in love. Ah, human creatures! Even your fantasies are teachers.

Geet Govind, 12th-century

Fantasies teach us what gives us pleasure and re veals to us what pleasures we miss in our 'realily

"Fiction can show you a different world.

It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different."

- Neil Gaiman, author

In fantasies we transgress boundaries and experience ourselves in unlimited ways

From a fantasy of desire we may create a new reality

"Being queer saved my life. Often we see queerness as dep- rivation. But when I look at my life, I saw that queerness de- manded an alternative innova- tion from me it made me curi- ous, it made me ask, "Is this

- Ocean rough fore and writer

"Overturing hierarchies is a part of human sex- uality. Transgression is a part of what wakes us up and makes us feel sexual"

Susan Block, sex therapist

Illustration of Carl Jung, a unicorn, and a quote by Maya Angelou. A person floats over a floating river. The river contains fishes, and lotuses.

Text on the card:

Without fantasy, we might be stuck

Where?

In an un-changing so-called 'reality'

The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.

to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, [is to let them become al particle in the mass

When we cherish fantasy, we learn to Trust our selves and we cherish the imagination.

(Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1961)

But what if some fantasies are truly evil?

Well, it's not about choosing one It's just keeping the world of fantasy alive so we, and the world can keep changing. fantasy as superior to another.

Carl Jung

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities."

- Maya Angelou

Bole toh, without fantasy there is no liberty!

ONE MEANING OF LIBERTY IS NO LIBERTY AFTER ALL

Without Fantasy There is No Liberty! Bole Toh? An AOI Chhotu Essay

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