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.
Written Essay / Article
Plan of the Year
Review of the film “O Plano do Ano”, which brings questions about science, do it yourself, education and the periphery. This review was published in “Zanzalá – The Brazilian Journal for SF Studies”. You can download this review here (available only in portuguese).
Cosmoverse Arkestra (2020), dir. Transälien
Interview with artist Transälien about the movie “Cosmoverse Arkestra”, dealing with themes such as science, fiction and Afrofuturism. Published in “Zanzalá – The Brazilian Journal for SF Studies”. You can download this interview here (available only in portuguese), and see the movie here.
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
The cybernetic science of the dead: science fiction as an artifact and document in wax or the discovery of television among bees.
This book chapter was written in collaboration with Érico Perrela. The essay has as its central theme the film Wax or the Discovery of Television Among Bees, released in 1991 and directed by artist David Blair. This was the first film transmitted via streaming over the internet, in 1993. We analyze the film as an … Read moreThe cybernetic science of the dead: science fiction as an artifact and document in wax or the discovery of television among bees.