How developing useful considerations on 'methods' when methodology is not your major focus of theoretical concern? The answer could be by looking back at forty years of research structured by a reflexive nomadism, an investment in conceptual import-export and a passion for objects which have rarely been the most legitimate for political scientists. What emerges thus are epistemological lessons and suggestions of analytical methods. What could be a panoptical approach of cultural goods? Why should researchers value induction and adopt the habit of having more than one research topic?