Télémaque Masson-Récipon is a PhD Candidate at l’Ehess in Paris, working under the supervision of Bernard Harcourt on considering the concept of Unconditional Basic Income through the lens of a neo-polanyian embeddedness theory of law and political economy. He has spent most of the last ten years doing research and organising towards the goal of ensuring the universal and unconditional guarantee of the material means of individual autonomy, working mainly with organisations of unemployed and precarious workers as well as anti-poverty and social exclusions NGOs while financing himself through a nightswatchman gig. He is also, amongst other commitments, a member of the national board of the Utopia movement.