Disordered order, ordered disorder: Threads, folds, and artistic action

Abstract

Alterglobal social movements and psychoanalysis are mined for actionable transformation of the mathematics educator, shifting the scholar of mathematics education, and offering phases for changing oneself in order to change the world: Identify (Deleuzian) nomadic terms; use these terms in nontraditional ways; craft the work with the new, nomadic topology; and study the points of time/space simultaneity within the new topology. Mathematics as public art is used to illustrate these phases. Alterglobal discourses act as tools of psychoanalytic understanding, functioning as hinges across the apolitical and the political, making mathematics education a part of changing social reality.