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 *My Pronouns: <http://mypronouns.org/they>she / they / them <http://mypronouns.org/they>* On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Send nettime-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.servus.at/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nettime-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Girl Math Theory by Irma Mastenbroek (Geert Lovink) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:52:24 +0100 > From: Geert Lovink <[email protected]> > To: nettime-l <[email protected]> > Subject: <nettime> Girl Math Theory by Irma Mastenbroek > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Girl Math Fundamentals ? Proof by Subversion by Irma Mastenbroek > > 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. > > > https://networkcultures.org/longform/2025/11/20/girl-math-fundamentals-proof-by-subversion/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > -- > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: https://www.nettime.org > # contact: [email protected] > > > ------------------------------ > > End of nettime-l Digest, Vol 29, Issue 11 > ***************************************** > -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: [email protected]
