This paper argues that research in/on/with school daily life implicates epistemological and political decisions, constitutes a movement against the discipline of know-how and characterizes an attitude favoring enlarged thought and active live. Based on a provocation by Ferry (2007), "we philosophize to save our own skin", it advocates that knowledge production, ethic posture negotiation and the attribution of meanings to human existence are intertwined. It locates scientific production among social practices and proposes that the ways of doing science fit into unsteady territories in which solidarity and struggles organize the spacetimes that constitute knowledge/power places. The text thus points out daily life narratives as possibilities to create a kind of knowledge that leads us to assume that only what is weaved together can save our skin.
Research in/of/with daily life; Experienced narratives; Invention of the present