Politically committed to the left, with a trajectory that took him from social democracy to pragmatic anarchism, via the ecologists and the New Anti-Capitalist Party,[1] he defines himself as an “anti-globalization and libertarian activist”.
[3] Sociologically speaking, he had started in study with a socio-ethnographic approach, within the scope of his thesis, the building of social groups, through railroaders’ trade unionism and, wider, the workers' movement.
[4] In this perspective, he linked the critical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, the pragmatic sociology of Luc Boltanski and the philosophy of emancipation of Jacques Rancière to build a new critical theory, particularly in his book Où est passée la critique sociale?
To explore this new critical theory, he also analyzed products of popular culture (detective novels, films, TV series, songs...), using the notion of language games taken from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and drawing on Stanley Cavell's philosophy of cinema.
Comment l'extrême droite gagne la bataille des idées (2021, non-translated, in English: "The great confusion.