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.
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Leaking genders: body and menstruation in the field in ethnological work
Presentation during the second session of Encounters in the Labyrinth, with the theme “Researching with those who do research” Encounters in the Labyrinth is an initiative of the Socioanthropological Studies Laboratory on Life Technologies (Labyrinth) of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). Available only in Portuguese.
One billionth of a meter
Visual essay done in October 2015 together with some of the 10 undergraduate students from USP who participated in the BIOMOD international biomolecular design competition. The group was the first South American to participate and had students from chemistry, physics, biomedical sciences, design, social sciences and mathematics.
Redoing the origins of the world
Series of collages made with paper cutting taken from science encyclopedias that circulated in Brazil during the 1970s.
My Antidote and My Poison
Portal. Open sea. Prison. Antidote. Poison. Since 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic, we have experienced the accelerated expansion of digital life and the remodulations of time and space that came with it. Made from the affections provoked by the entanglement between everyday life and the digital environment, Meu Antidoto e Meu Veneno [My Antidote and … Read moreMy Antidote and My Poison
The sorcerer’s hat: do-it-yourself science as sociotechnical controversy
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
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