Racism, eugenics and the history of science
Speech presented during the panel “Ethics and security of biological data”, held within Jamboree Brazil, iGEM, 2020. Text only available in Portuguese.
Philosophy
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