The term biohacking encompasses a wide range of practices: from bodily modifications such as chip implants to building garage labs. Lecture presented at Roadsec São Paulo 2016. Language: Portuguese.
Article written and presented at 17 ESOCITE BR, in the working group “Peripherality and subalternity in the production of knowledge”. In the article, I made an ethnographic analysis of the participation of the University of São Paulo team in the 2016 IGEM international genetic engineering competition. You can download this article here (available only in … Read moreThe sorcerer’s hat: do-it-yourself science as sociotechnical controversy
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
Visual essay produced from an experiment using my menstrual blood translated from a microscope built by my friends and I that uses a cell phone camera aplied with a laser pointer lens. This relationship came about thanks to my master’s research, ethnographing the encounter between hacker practices and scientific practice, thinking of it as tactics … Read moreNew Moon