The pleasure in not understanding a language can be awesome
Psyche
Publication Date: January 19, 2022
Theme: Language
Category: Journalism and essays
Writings
Here you can find a record of almost all my publications – from scholarly journal articles to newspaper articles – listed with the most recent first. In most cases there is either a downloadable pdf or a link to the publication itself. You can search by publication type (academic, non-academic, book reviews etc), by theme and by keyword. Enjoy!
Review of ‘The Women of Rothschild’ by Natalie Livingstone
Prospect Jan-Feb 2022
Publication Date: January 1, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
New set of portraits to shine a light on British Jews in all their diversity
Jewish News
Photography initiative is response to frustration about the media's knee-jerk use of photographs of Charedim to illustrate stories about Jewish community
Publication Date: December 28, 2021
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Interviews
So who is judging YouTube?
Index on Censorship
Accused by the video behemoth of spreading misinformation, KEITH KAHN-HARRIS conducted an
experiment in an effort to understand how the social media platform polices its content
Publication Date: Winter 2021 50(4)
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Miscellaneous
Category: Journalism and essays
The Babel Message
Village Raw
In a celebration of linguistic diversity, author Keith Kahn-Harris used the lockdown to investigate the warning messages found inside Kinder Surprise Eggs
Publication Date: November 2021
Theme: Language, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
How a Kinder Egg led to a surprising linguistic journey
The Big Issue
Author and sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris had a lockdown project that cracked the joy of languages
Publication Date: November 24, 2021
Theme: Language, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
I’m so obsessed with Kinder Eggs, I translated the packaging into hundreds of languages including Klingon
The iPaper
An extract from The Babel Message
Publication Date: November 16, 2021
Theme: Language, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Oh, the Guilt
The Battleground
Tough times for fun books.
Publication Date: November 8, 2021
Theme: Language, Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Author unwraps a world of languages inside a Kinder Surprise
Ham and High
Publication Date: November 8, 2021
Theme: Language
Category: Interviews
KAnon: How I Almost Became A Kinder Conspiracist
Byline Times
During lockdown, Keith Kahn-Harris discovered a strange anomaly inside Kinder Surprise Eggs, and almost began to uncover a vast corporate conspiracy…
Publication Date: November 5, 2021
Theme: Language, Miscellaneous
Category: Journalism and essays
Spare a thought for England’s disappearing linguistic heritage
The Herald
Publication Date: November 3, 2021
Theme: Language
Category: Journalism and essays
Taking The Heavy Metal Umlaut Seriously (Or, Why Motörhead Are Azerbaijani)
The Quietus
Riffing on the themes he explores in his new book The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language, Keith Kahn-Harris shares his love of diacritics and explains how the heavy metal umlaut might be less teutonic than it first appears
Publication Date: November 1, 2021
Theme: Best Of, Language, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays
Heavy Metal als Forschungsobjekt: Spannende Gradwanderung [Interview]
Voxx
Ästhetisch oft interessant, bisweilen jedoch auch sehr problematisch: so beschreibt der britische Soziologe und Musikkritiker Keith Kahn-Harris die versuchte Grenzüberschreitung in den extremen Spielarten des Heavy Metal. Im Gespräch erzählt er, wie man über Metal schreibt – und was in diesem Genre meist nicht zur Sprache kommt.
[A slightly different version of the interview was also published in Jungle World magazine]
Publication Date: October 28, 2021
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Interviews
Kinder Eggs: The Rosetta Stone of our times
The New European
On the linguistic politics behind the safety warning message found in the humble confectionery.
Publication Date: October 28, 2021
Theme: Language
Category: Journalism and essays
How I used Kinder Eggs to keep dozens of lost languages alive
Jewish Chronicle
The tiny slip of paper inside the chocolate egg is a symbol of how so many languages have been lost in the modern world
Publication Date: October 28, 2021
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Language
Category: Journalism and essays
What a Kinder Surprise can teach us about language
Prospect
The instructions that come with the chocolate egg demonstrate the world’s huge linguistic variety
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
Theme: Language
Category: Journalism and essays
Gutted, Hashed and Deboned: Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious By Carcass At 30
The Quietus
30 years on, Keith Kahn-Harris still finds this landmark release full of surprises and possibilities
Publication Date: October 25, 2021
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
What went wrong: Assessing the fallout of antisemitism in the Labour Party
Times Literary Supplement
Review of :
HOW THE EHRC GOT IT SO WRONG
Antisemitism and the Labour Party
Verso. ebook. gratis.
Jewish Voice for Labour
LABOUR'S ANTISEMITISM CRISIS
What the left got wrong and how to learn from it
230pp. Routledge. £120 (paperback, £19.99).
David Renton
Publication Date: October 22, 2021
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Politics
Category: Book reviews