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Philosophy of Care and the Collective

Rethinking social bonds and community

Authentic care for the collective begins with recognizing that humanity is intrinsically relational: we exist only in and through social bonds, in this interdependence that constitutes us from birth. Yet our societies transform forgetting into threat - a simple abandoned bag paralyzes the system - revealing how fear of the unpredictable destroys the social fabric. Social presence determines our physiological health: the blue zones teach us that longevity resides less in miracle diets than in the depth of community bonds. To form a society, we need a symbolic common place that is neither soft consensus nor comfortable entre-soi, but a space of creative confrontation where differences can express themselves without destroying each other. Culture, far from being a supplement to the soul or entertainment, constitutes this vital milieu where we learn to be together, where each person’s presence is legitimized in their singularity. Going out in presence means rediscovering this vital need for sharing that lockdowns revealed through their very absence. The contemporary challenge consists in creating spaces where care is not biopolitical control but mutual attention, where the collective does not crush singularities but makes them resonate, where community is built not on the exclusion of the other but on the inclusion of difference.

When the real does not exist, one cannot speak of it
When the real does not exist, one cannot speak of it

On speech as the manifestation of the real, and silence as the body’s lucidity.

We often reproach certain people for not knowing how to speak about what they live in their relationships. I want to argue that their silence is not always a deficiency of expression, but sometimes the lucidity of someone who recognises that, in (…)
16 May 2026
  5 min
Feminism and Free Love
Feminism and Free Love

From 19th-century anarchist feminists to contemporary decolonial perspectives.

Feminism has maintained a relationship with free love as ancient as it is fruitful, traversed by tensions that remain unresolved and that I believe are important to continue exploring. From its origins, the women’s emancipation movement has (…)
31 December 2025
  10 min
Amorous Permeability
Amorous Permeability

Between self-dissolution and emancipation through pleasure.

How can we fully inhabit the intensity of an amorous bond without dissolving into it? This tension runs through the experience of every strong relationship: the permeability that opens us to the other can also make us lose our contours. Losing (…)
5 December 2025
  6 min
Beyond power dynamics: toward a spiritual ethics of romantic relationships
Beyond power dynamics: toward a spiritual ethics of romantic relationships

When feminist deconstruction meets the limits of its own analytical framework.

Contemporary feminist debates on romantic relationships privilege analysis through power relations. This approach, however legitimate, can obscure other equally essential dimensions: spirituality, the multiplicity of bonds, and emancipation (…)
2 November 2025
  15 min
The dialectic of bonds, between necessary rupture and continuity of self
The dialectic of bonds, between necessary rupture and continuity of self

The unbearable lightness of detachment.

There exists in human existence a perpetual oscillation, an ambivalent relationship to rupture that so many individuals maintain when faced with the possibility of leaving, breaking away, emancipating themselves. This tension reveals a (…)
16 October 2025
  6 min
Obsolete Mononormativity
Obsolete Mononormativity

Rethinking Emotional Bonds Beyond the Exclusive Couple.

The crisis of contemporary relationships is not so much due to heteronormativity as to mononormativity: this belief that a single person should meet all our emotional, sexual and material needs. The Illusion of Total ComplementarityRecent (…)
7 October 2025
  6 min
Presence and governance of minds
Presence and governance of minds

Control as a culture of death, presence as a path to life.

Faced with the emergence of a “psychopolitics” that governs our interiorities, presence to oneself seems to me to be the necessary antidote to the normative controls that colonize our minds and affects. Law enters the psyche as a new form of (…)
3 October 2025
  5 min
Body and Sexuality
Body and Sexuality

For an expanded consciousness of sexual pleasure and love.

Sexuality centered on the genital organs, however common it may be, risks exhaustion. What if the entire body became the source of a deeper pleasure, of a true embodied spirituality? Sexuality is not limited to the genital organs. It inhabits (…)
15 September 2025
  6 min
Sexuality and Spirituality
Sexuality and Spirituality

Beyond pleasure, towards an erotics of transcendence.

Sexuality cannot be reduced to a hedonistic quest. It constitutes a privileged pathway to our spiritual dimension, a path towards what transcends and grounds us. To forget this is to limit ourselves. The dominant paradigm of sexuality reduced to (…)
13 September 2025
  5 min
Presence and Sexuality
Presence and Sexuality

Beyond instinct, a path to self-awareness.

Sexuality transcends its biological function. I propose exploring it as a path toward presence to oneself, capable of reshaping our intimate, social and cultural relationship to the world. From biological instinct to cultural constructions (…)
12 September 2025
  11 min
Presence of abandoned luggage
Presence of abandoned luggage

On the security fantasy.

When fear of the unpredictable transforms forgetting into threat, an entire society tips into a security fiction. In French public transport, a simple forgotten bag is enough to paralyze the system. Behind this excessive reaction, a (…)
21 July 2025
  5 min
Présence et expérience sociale
Présence et expérience sociale

La légitimité culturelle à l’épreuve du vécu.

Comment notre sentiment de légitimité façonne-t-il notre expérience culturelle ? Éclairons les dimensions sociales et politiques de la présence artistique, au-delà de la simple réception esthétique. La légitimité intérieure comme condition de (…)
13 juillet 2025
  5 min
Presence in culture
Presence in culture

For a conscious emancipation.

I allow myself a critique of the Freudian paradigm: what if human nature were intrinsically good? And I propose the concept of “presence in culture” to move beyond the id-ego-superego triad, in order to cultivate a consciously chosen (…)
9 July 2025
  8 min