Re: <nettime> nettime-l Digest, Vol 29, Issue 11

[prema trettin via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Geert et al -

As a (once upon a time) critical theorist who now teaches science & algebra
to middle schoolers in Northern California, this piece brought me so much
joy it caused me to emerge from a 20 year lurk.

This is why we need <nettime> now & forever.

In solidarity,

prema
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>    1. Girl Math Theory by Irma Mastenbroek (Geert Lovink)
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> Subject: <nettime> Girl Math Theory by Irma Mastenbroek
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> Girl Math Fundamentals ? Proof by Subversion by Irma Mastenbroek
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> In this first, groundbreaking essay on Girl Math, Dutch feminist
> mathematician Irma Mastenbroek argues that the girls? seemingly shallow,
> consumerist rendering of girl logic should be read as an epistemic critique
> of its violent twin, Boy Math. The girl?s alleged irrationalities become
> deliberate mathematical sabotages, where axioms like ?cash is free? and
> ?paid-for vacations are free later? form the basis of an internally
> coherent Girl Math universe. The girl online loves pissing off boys with
> her emotional vibe calculus; the girls who get it, get it, and the ones who
> don?t remain locked inside their own brittle, rational thought prisons. In
> this significant contribution to Girl Theory, Mastenbroek proposes a
> paradigm shift in which ?omg, same? vibes function as forms of vibrational
> truth through their resonance and intuitive same-ish-ness. In Category
> Theoretic terms, the author shows that whatever a girl thinks or says can
> be mathematically formalized?and therefore justified?just
>  as boys have been doing within their self-appointed rational order for
> centuries.
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> https://networkcultures.org/longform/2025/11/20/girl-math-fundamentals-proof-by-subversion/
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