My Creative Process
Despite my academic background—including two doctoral degrees in social sciences and the humanities—I now work independently, outside the academic establishment. I chose this path to have full creative and intellectual freedom in both content and form.
My work is interpretive: I explore social reality through everyday experience and through the texts I encounter—academic, artistic, and popular. I don’t aim to produce an objective truth, because I believe that whenever humans study themselves, their subjectivity is part of the process. What I seek instead is understanding: to notice patterns, uncover meanings, and make sense of the complex dynamics of power in human relationships.
This website is both a book and a research tool. Its structure is inspired by the rhizomatic approach of Deleuze and Guattari, which traces connections across ideas without forcing them into a linear order. The pages are linked like roots underground—branching, intersecting, and growing in unexpected directions.
My work is interpretive: I explore social reality through everyday experience and through the texts I encounter—academic, artistic, and popular. I don’t aim to produce an objective truth, because I believe that whenever humans study themselves, their subjectivity is part of the process. What I seek instead is understanding: to notice patterns, uncover meanings, and make sense of the complex dynamics of power in human relationships.
This website is both a book and a research tool. Its structure is inspired by the rhizomatic approach of Deleuze and Guattari, which traces connections across ideas without forcing them into a linear order. The pages are linked like roots underground—branching, intersecting, and growing in unexpected directions.
Image credit: Mac Mullins
My life and my research are inseparable. I treat every situation as a potential source of knowledge. Everyday experiences—parenting, dealing with bureaucracy, managing emotions, witnessing conflict—become opportunities for reflection. Thinking about power and meaning helps me navigate these situations with greater empathy and awareness. Over time, this practice has become both a way of understanding the world and a form of personal growth.
Because power is so complex, I look closely at its many layers: individual and collective, visible and invisible. I analyze small details to see how they connect to larger structures, and then weave them back together into a more complete picture. This ongoing movement between analysis and synthesis shapes both my thinking and the design of this hypertext.
Writing is an essential part of this process. I rarely begin with a fixed plan—ideas emerge as I write, revise, and connect sentences. Increasingly, I write in collaboration with AI, which helps me refine expression, clarify structure, and make ideas more accessible. But the ideas, insights, and direction remain my own. Writing with AI has become a kind of dialogue that allows me to think more deeply and communicate more clearly.
Ultimately, my creative process is a way of living as much as it is a way of writing. My research accompanies me through daily life, shaping how I see the world and how I respond to it. In that sense, it is both my work and my practice—an ongoing effort to understand, to stay aware, and to act with compassion and clarity.
My life and my research are inseparable. I treat every situation as a potential source of knowledge. Everyday experiences—parenting, dealing with bureaucracy, managing emotions, witnessing conflict—become opportunities for reflection. Thinking about power and meaning helps me navigate these situations with greater empathy and awareness. Over time, this practice has become both a way of understanding the world and a form of personal growth.
Because power is so complex, I look closely at its many layers: individual and collective, visible and invisible. I analyze small details to see how they connect to larger structures, and then weave them back together into a more complete picture. This ongoing movement between analysis and synthesis shapes both my thinking and the design of this hypertext.
Writing is an essential part of this process. I rarely begin with a fixed plan—ideas emerge as I write, revise, and connect sentences. Increasingly, I write in collaboration with AI, which helps me refine expression, clarify structure, and make ideas more accessible. But the ideas, insights, and direction remain my own. Writing with AI has become a kind of dialogue that allows me to think more deeply and communicate more clearly.
Ultimately, my creative process is a way of living as much as it is a way of writing. My research accompanies me through daily life, shaping how I see the world and how I respond to it. In that sense, it is both my work and my practice—an ongoing effort to understand, to stay aware, and to act with compassion and clarity.