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Politics of Truth and Power

Mechanisms of domination and paths to emancipation

Contemporary power no longer operates so much through visible constraint as through the manipulation of narratives and the manufacture of consent. We too easily forgive the moral failure of those who govern us, we accept calling “freedom” what is authorization, we let information lull us into voluntary submission. The health crisis revealed this fundamental confusion: the authorization regime replaced the freedom regime under the guise of protection. The post-Covid inversion of powers shows how censorship and state lies weaken our democracies while paradoxically rehabilitating yesterday’s dissident voices. Faced with the calm crowd that submits, faced with manufactured consensuses that stifle debate, resistance passes through a lucid presence that refuses the attraction of submission. The left itself, prisoner of the system it claims to fight, must rediscover an authentic political consciousness, distinct from the good conscience that contents itself with moral postures. Restoring democracy requires creating spaces where all discourses are authorized, where complex and partial truth can emerge from dialogue rather than being decreed by experts or algorithms. Authentic politics is born from this tension between care for the collective and resistance to biopower that controls bodies and minds.

Anthropology of the Electricity Pylon
Anthropology of the Electricity Pylon

On the technical mythology of a country that never debates its infrastructures.

In December 1999, the storms Lothar and Martin brought down more than a thousand high-voltage pylons in France and cut off electricity to 3.7 million households, sometimes for three weeks. Neighbouring Germany, crossed by the same winds, remained (…)
28 April 2026
  8 min
What fear did to us
What fear did to us

Philosophy of a health crisis, both political and intimate.

The Covid period revealed, beneath the veneer of our democracies, mechanisms of collective fear whose consequences have not yet been fully measured. This article is an attempt at understanding, not condemnation. It is addressed to those who were (…)
28 February 2026
  12 min
Growing Up in Cultural Contempt
Growing Up in Cultural Contempt

When the Emancipation Sector Manufactures Domination: A Sociological Analysis of an Intimate Experience

Contempt is not an accident of the cultural system; it is its fuel. What François Dubet analyzes on a societal scale, I experienced from childhood in my very flesh as the child of modest artists. The Child in Front of Télérama: An Original Wound (…)
28 January 2026
  7 min
How to Enact Freedom?
How to Enact Freedom?

The collective and transgressive dimension of a fundamental political exercise.

Faced with the erosion of associative freedoms, rethinking freedom as a collective and transgressive practice becomes an urgent democratic necessity.The French Republic bears three words on the pediments of its public buildings: Liberté, (…)
21 January 2026
  6 min
Politics and Digital Technology: The Cascade of Rules
Politics and Digital Technology: The Cascade of Rules

How CSS Language Illuminates the Mechanisms of Automated Exclusion in Our Digital Societies.

Social exclusion no longer proceeds solely from individual decisions or explicit ideologies. It now operates through the automatic propagation of rules embedded in our technical infrastructures. Technofascism or Exclusion by CascadeLennie (…)
11 January 2026
  5 min
Covid and Fear
Covid and Fear

Reflections on collective anxiety and its defense mechanisms.

The Covid-19 period revealed unexpected psychological mechanisms in individuals we believed to be free in their thinking. This observation led me to question the springs of belief and the role of anxiety in our relationship to reality. The (…)
7 November 2025
  5 min
On Warrior Absence
On Warrior Absence

Reinvesting in a radical philosophy of pacifism.

War is the abdication of our humanity, pacifism its highest affirmation. Between the absence from self imposed by violence and the presence to the other demanded by peace lies, in my view, the ethical destiny of humanity. War as denial of (…)
1 September 2025
  6 min
Too Easy Forgiveness
Too Easy Forgiveness

When indulgence toward elected officials betrays the democratic pact.

Following an exchange with a member of parliament, one question obsesses me: why do we so easily forgive the moral failure of those who govern us, when their function demands exemplary probity? The genesis of indignation: the denial of faultMy (…)
31 July 2025
  5 min
Presence against the calm crowd
Presence against the calm crowd

From collective docility to individual resistance.

When information reassures and lulls our democratic vigilance to sleep, how can we resist the allure of voluntary submission? A reflection on the invisible mechanisms of conformism and the vital necessity of autonomy. Anatomy of consented (…)
27 July 2025
  8 min
The Too-Rapid Inversion of the Value System
The Too-Rapid Inversion of the Value System

For a Democracy of Dialogue in the Face of New Totalitarianisms.

Faced with the rise of extremisms, let us question our collective responsibility in the stigmatization of the other. I propose paths to reconnect with authentic democratic dialogue. The Banality of Evil and the Trap of DemonizationSince Donald (…)
6 July 2025
  9 min
The beginning of a future for the Left
The beginning of a future for the Left

Reflections on the contemporary contradictions of progressive thought.

How did the left find itself trapped within the system it fights against? Analysis of an insidious drift and sketch of a possible renewal. The progressive habituation to liberalismThe left, defender of a solidary society, has progressively (…)
29 June 2025
  10 min
Authorization Regime and Freedom Regime
Authorization Regime and Freedom Regime

When the confusion between authorization and freedom reveals a deep democratic crisis.

The management of the Covid-19 crisis revealed a fundamental confusion in our societies: we have overwhelmingly accepted to call “freedom” what was its exact opposite. This misunderstanding is not anecdotal but symptomatic of a deep cultural (…)
28 June 2025
  6 min
Political awareness and political conscience
Political awareness and political conscience

Between social conformity and authentic commitment.

What are our moral values worth when tested by reality? Between deep conviction and reassuring conformism, how do we distinguish authentic engagement from the illusion of good? What separates those who risk for their ideas from those who follow? (…)
24 June 2025
  5 min
Hearing of Alex Hitchens at the Commission of Inquiry into the psychological effects of TikTok on minors (June 10, 2025).
The evolution of law and symbolic power in the age of social networks

When traditional institutions lose their grip on new power players.

Faced with the emergence of new forms of authority, our democracies must rethink their relationship to dialogue and respect for otherness so as not to lose their legitimacy. The challenge of contested authorityDuring a National Assembly (…)
12 June 2025
  9 min
The post-covid inversion of power
The post-covid inversion of power

Political absence in times of crisis.

The Covid crisis revealed how censorship, lies and manipulation of information by public authorities and mainstream media weaken our democracies. Today, the inversion of power fortunately rehabilitates yesterday’s dissident voices, but (…)
28 May 2025
  5 min
Presence, care and politics
Presence, care and politics

When self-care becomes an act of political resistance.

Presence, care, and politics are intimately linked. Faced with contemporary biopower that controls bodies and attacks our free will, cultivating inner presence becomes resistance and a path towards true democracy. Definitions Presence is an (…)
13 May 2025
  6 min
Presence and freedom of expression
Presence and freedom of expression

Who is responsible for freedom?

Freedom of expression, a democratic pillar, is threatened by shifting censorship depending on those in power, even those who claim to be democrats. To preserve our democracy, let’s create micro-citizen assemblies where all speech is allowed, to (…)
4 May 2025
  7 min