Booker’s Dozen @ Keith Kahn-Harris
The Pensive Quill
Publication Date: April 7, 2021
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Book reviews, Interviews
Personal/Memoire
While all writing contains something of the writer, sometimes I like to write more explicitly personal pieces. In this theme I have include memoire and other personal essays, some of which explore my experiences as a person with a long-term chronic health condition.
Writings, talks and videos relating to Personal/Memoire
Smoke your way to hopelessness
Sick
Publication Date: July 1, 2020
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
YouTube Reveries
Tortoise: Letters from Lockdown
From Basque sports to military ration packs, Keith Kahn-Harris has been swept along by algorithms during the pandemic.
[Also available as audio]
Publication Date: June 2, 2020
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
The sweet scent of spiritual sanctuary
The Tablet
Publication Date: May 1, 2020
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Finding Ferdy B
A Lockdown Miscellany
On the wistful pleasure of turning a chance encounter into a minor obsession
Publication Date: April 15, 2020
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
A dull sort of ache
Boundless
Keith Kahn-Harris on the modern anti-semitism game he doesn't want to join
Publication Date: June 11, 2019
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
What’s worse than rejection?
Boundless
Silent rejection, argues one writer, which becomes a never-ending - and infuriating - act of waiting
Publication Date: December 2018
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
On watching my children listening to music while doing their homework
Riffs Journal
Publication Date: November 2018
Theme: Music, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journal articles, Journalism and essays
What going to a Metallica concert with my daughter taught me about modern infrastructure
Medium
Utopia and dystopia all in one evening
Publication Date: October 26, 2017
Theme: Best Of, Culture, Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Towards an Exhausted Sociology
The Sociological Review Blog
Publication Date: October 25, 2017
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Excuse all the blood
So Fi Zine
My first attempt at fiction! Based very very loosely on my PhD fieldwork on the Israeli metal scene.
Publication Date: June 24, 2017
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Metal Music and Culture, Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Labour’s antisemitism row is scaring me (but, perhaps, not for the reasons you might expect)
Medium
Publication Date: May 5, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
The Pleasures, Pain and Promise of Sociological Work Outside the Academy
Medium
Adapted from a talk given at the British Sociological Association Sociologists Outside Academia Group’s 10th Anniversary Event. It was first published on The Sociological Imagination blog.
Publication Date: December 11, 2015
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
My Top Ten Musical Anxieties of 2014
Souciant
Publication Date: December 16, 2014
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Music, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
The pleasure and pain of crowd funding
The Literary Platform
Reflections on the experience of watching the crowdfunding campaign for 'The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg' stall
Publication Date: August 25, 2012
Theme: Personal/Memoire, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Journalism and essays
Slayer and me
Souciant
Publication Date: June 14, 2012
Theme: Best Of, Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
How a childhood spent collecting building societies taught me to celebrate the power of obscurity
Ignite London
Date: November 5, 2011
Theme: Personal/Memoire, Small worlds, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Other talks (selected)
Deserving an Audience: The Limits of Scholarly Publishing
Souciant
Publication Date: September 6, 2011
Theme: Personal/Memoire, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Journalism and essays
Why we are all worth a mix of self-love and self-hate
The Guardian
A measured dose of self-hate helps transform us into better people
Publication Date: June 11, 2011
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
University cuts could expose iniquity of casual contracts
The Guardian
Cuts heap anxiety on the already insecure lives of academics. Hopefully the post-cuts university world can resist casualisation
Publication Date: September 18, 2010
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Safe and sound
Times Higher Education
'The insecure scholar', one of THE's online columnists, calls for an academy that offers all scholars dignity and security
[This was the final column that I wrote in this anonymous series]
Publication Date: March 18, 2010
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
My dream came true and I’m still not satisfied: the journey of a Metal Jew
Ignite London
Date: March 2, 2010
Theme: Jews and Metal, Personal/Memoire
Category: Other talks (selected)
The Insecure Scholar
Times Higher Education
From October 2009 to March 2010 I wrote an anonymous weekly column for Times Higher Education. In the column I discussed the joys and tribulations of insecure employment within academia. Since these columns were published my life has moved on and I don't necessarily think the same way about academia as I did then. However, I remain proud of the columns I wrote and anyone who is interested can find them compiled in a single pdf via the link before (or on the Times Higher Education website)
Publication Date: October 2009 - March 2010
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Journey into the Known
‘Beneath the Remains – Translations of Estrangement and the Politics of Survival’ at arttransponder, Berlin
The link is to an updated audio-visual essay, from 2015, of my original presentation at this event.
Publication Date: November 9, 2009
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
It’s not just for ME I ask
Times Higher Education
Academia needs to be more accommodating to those who cannot or choose not to work full time, argues Keith Kahn-Harris
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
What it really means to be healthy
The Guardian
After a bout of glandular fever at university, Keith Kahn-Harris developed chronic fatigue syndrome, from which he still suffers. He explains how this debilitating and misunderstood illness has changed his life for ever
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
Theme: Best Of, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays