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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Jan 8

The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Find out more at sophushelle.com/monkeymind/

I would love if you give it a listen, share it with a friend, or leave a review ❤️

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Monkey Mind

Philosophy Podcast · 5 Episodes

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Jan 8

The first five episodes are up now, so next time you’re on the subway, learn about why it’s okay to be late with your taxes and to dogear your books, or discover a Paleolithic drama about three teenagers, a dog and a volcano. 3/4

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Jan 8

Monkey Mind is about books. And sex. And philosophy. And weird bits of history, like where crime fiction came from or how the Demogorgon got its name. It’s about why kids kill insects, why we make typos, and why farts are hard to forget. 2/4

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Jan 8

My new podcast, MONKEY MIND, is out!

It’s the podcast that brings you bite-sized audio essays — fifteen-minute episodes that are stuffed with stories and nuggets of knowledge. 1/4

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Nov 28

I'm especially honored to be part of the volume celebrating the 20th anniversary of David Damrosch's "What Is World Literature?", in such great company as @madsrt.bsky.social, Gisèle Sapiro, Francesca Orsini, Delia Ungureanu, and David Damrosch himself!

Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Nov 28

New article out—open access! While World Literature celebrates the circulation of books, I survey literary works that, for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways, express their resistance to circulation. How do stories stick—or get stuck?

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Nov 28

New article out—open access! While World Literature celebrates the circulation of books, I survey literary works that, for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways, express their resistance to circulation. How do stories stick—or get stuck?

brill.com/view/journal...

brill.com

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Nov 26

I'm doing both—as well as Geshtinana and Dumuzi, Dumuzi's Dream, three essays (one by myself, two by others), and a poem by a contemporary Syrian writer

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Nov 26

Started work on The Descent of Inana. Very excited about this project. A strange text—so simple on the surface, so complex underneath...

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Nov 24

image from: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D...

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Nov 24

just remembered this incredible drawing by Onfim, a Russian six-year-old kid who lived about 800 years ago and whose homework was serendipitously preserved in the frozen soil

here, he depicts himself on horseback, killing his teacher

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · Nov 22

still the best review I've ever gotten

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