Kaleidoscope or Bloody Trap

As part of my doctoral research, I have been experimenting with my own menstrual blood. What I investigate is the aesthetic / erotic dimension of knowledge production, and how we can think together with what is normally hidden, what Bruno Latour calls the purification process of scientific making. So I chose to work with the … Read moreKaleidoscope or Bloody Trap

The sorcerer’s hat: artifacts, apprentices and apprenticeships from a (bio)hacker scientific making

This dissertation aims to closely follow (bio) hacker practices beaconed by political guidelines of opening and democratization, carried out at first within the University of São Paulo, a “traditional” research institution, but integrating networks and building alliances that enlarge and thicken the actors and places authorized to engage scientific practices. It is na experimental ethnographic … Read moreThe sorcerer’s hat: artifacts, apprentices and apprenticeships from a (bio)hacker scientific making