HEWN, No. 360 (or so)
Hey hey hey. Long time, no write.
It’s been a minute since I announced that I was stepping away from Hack Education and shuttering this newsletter. And I’m back to say that that’s not changing.
I am however launching a new project on June 11, and as you’ve been a reader of my work, I thought you should know. Hell, you might even want to sign up for it. It's a newsletter, surprise surprise. I’m not going to sign you up; it's rude, even if it's legal, as you never agreed to hear from me about anything other than pigeons and ed-tech.
The new project is called Second Breakfast, and it will cover some of the same ground that Hack Education and HEWN did before: namely, how new technologies — and just as importantly *how the stories we tell about new technologies* — shape our lives, our practices, our brains, our bodies. Or try to.
It's that last bit — "our bodies" — that is a new topic for me. I've spent the past three years since my son Isaiah's death focused very much on my own health, mentally and physically. We all have, in some way, as the pandemic has forced us to reconsider the ways in which we work and learn and eat and move.
Second Breakfast will continue my work on "the history of the future," and I'll still be writing critical analysis about technology — this time, food and fitness tech, not ed-tech. (There will also be recipes for and reviews of various breakfast foods.) The newsletter's tagline includes the phrase "How I get through the mo(u)rning," and I have lots to say too on trauma and grief and aging and how the hell we are going to manage to move forward after everything everything everything [expansive gesture] that's happened.
Hope to see you over there.
Yours in struggle,
~Audrey