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Gender-neutral toilets? Come on!

written by Danilo Heyer

On Wednesday May 22, Jonas Follonier, editor-in-chief of this magazine, shared on social networks a photo of the men's toilet door at the Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines of the Université de Neuchâtel. On the door was a small poster masking the male logo and stating that «the toilets had been made gender-free because the male-female sigils displayed on the toilets oppress a section of the university population». The action was instigated by the «UniNE collective for the women's* and feminist strike», which is «calling for a boycott of these stereotyped, medieval codes».

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Philosophy? One, undisciplined, without art or share

By Giovanni Ryffel · May 11, 2019

In the age of the triumph of technology, we love specialization. Happiness can almost be equated with being the only expert in a discipline, even if it's the Rubik's Cube. In this context, philosophy seems to be at a loss: the discipline that used to teach how to ask questions about all other disciplines, is it now nothing more than a vague discourse on a little bit of everything and, ultimately, a little bit of nothing? Should it then betray its original vocation and become just another specialized discipline, as is already the case in many universities?

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Intellectuals, we're going to have a blast!

By Giovanni Ryffel · 07 April 2019

LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Giovanni F. Ryffel | The worlds of scientists and humanists: two separate worlds? The former often ignore the fact that they are intellectuals in spite of themselves, as Sartre said, while the latter are easily reduced to the category of «literary», as if other disciplines hardly existed. But how did we get here? Is this the only possible distinction?