Notting Hill Editions Author Profile: Keith Kahn-Harris
Exact Editions Blog
Publication Date: March 15, 2022
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Interviews
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!
Putin Comes Clean: From Denial to Invasion
The Battleground
Invasion is an act of commitment. To send troops in, to kill, to seek to dominate, is to rule out alternative courses of action, perhaps forever.
Publication Date: March 7, 2022
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
They Were Not Evil: The Loveable Raconteurs Of NWOBHM
The Quietus
Keith Kahn-Harris reviews Michael Hann’s Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and revisits his long-lost NWOBHM past
Publication Date: February 19, 2022
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
The left needs to learn from Boris Johnson’s sense of fun
New Statesman
From Corbynite purity to Starmerite self-flagellation, the left is based on a denial of its own humanity – of fun.
Publication Date: February 15, 2022
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
The pleasure in not understanding a language can be awesome
Psyche
Publication Date: January 19, 2022
Theme: Language
Category: Journalism and essays
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