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Scholarly and scientific professions are evolving with time and are apace with current changes in other professions. Intermittent scholars and researchers in a context of economic uncertainty (or “precariousness”) are increasing in number. Yet, these individuals are not merely “status-deprived” due to the absence of a specific position ? as would be expected, but are oftentimes “free electrons” for purposes of independence and driven by the imperative need to move off beaten paths in order to progress intellectually. Their independence from the academic environment and the professional status of professors or researchers can, therefore, also be the result of voluntary and deliberate decisions. Such decisions are in line with the transversality between the disciplines, objects, and professions of scholarship, science, and research, although such transversality among disciplines still has a long way to go. Yet the violence of this economically precarious situation is not something one chooses; rather, it is most often endured and calls for new questions, but also new social and political answers. The following article tells the tale of an independent cognitive worker that can be interpreted as an eco-systemic mistake by some and as an obvious symptom of ongoing mutations by others.