Teleportation and Transformation: approaching the 'impossible' through storytelling and technology by Eirini Sourgiadaki

This research delves into the enduring human desire for immortality, omnipresence, and boundless existence, contrasting with the finite nature of human life. Employing language tools like metaphor and analogy, the project explores the metaphysical realm embedded in everyday culture, investigating the in-between moment of teleportation and transformation. This moment, often overlooked, is a threshold of change and ambiguity, prompting questions about the body's presence-absence in time and space. The research methodology remains open, evolving organically through exploration, experimentation, and engagement with hypnosis, meditation, storytelling, and somatic practices. In a parallel exploration, the study draws inspiration from the historical origin of the term "Metaphysics," tracing its roots to Aristotle's works beyond the physical world. While acknowledging the dualisms inherent in metaphysics, the research embraces entanglement and recognizes the contemporary relevance of metaphysical inquiries in new materialism. Navigating the nostalgia for the past and the future, the study examines metaphysics as both a connection and a separation, akin to conjoined twins, contributing to ongoing philosophical conversations about existence, agency, and the interconnectedness of the material world.

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weird, rabbit, time-machine, parents, owls, door, sorcery, lord of the rings, harry potter, elevator

I don’t know much about Superman, I only know Alice. She is weird. She is chasing a rabbit and falls into a very deep well. In the well there are many doors and she is looking for the right door that she would fit to go through. For myself I would like to have a device that allows me to travel back in time. Or forward. A time-machine. There is a button, I press it and the entrance door opens. Like an elevator. It can read my thoughts so it can take me anywhere I want to go. It is not a portable device, it is located somewhere and I go to find it whenever I want to use it. I can draw it

You know, I have also read Harry Potter, who lost his parents, then some owls visited him, he then went to the sorcery school. This information matters because his parents were also sorcerers. Superman has lost his parents as well. I have also watched Lord of the Rings. Not everything in these stories is untrue.

Device: elevator

Transition: smooth

Interface: telepathy

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Eirini Sourgiadaki - Teleportation and Transformation: approaching the 'impossible' through storytelling and technology - 2023

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