Christos Lynteris
@visualplague.bsky.social
Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) researching and writing on zoonoses, plague, epidemics, history of colonial medicine, animal studies, and visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl1
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl1
Looking forward to reading Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi, by Christina Schwenkel www.ucpress.edu/books/sonic-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Looking forward to reading Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi, by Christina Schwenkel www.ucpress.edu/books/sonic-...
Some Pieter Bruegel for Martinmas
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Some Pieter Bruegel for Martinmas
For those lucky enough to be in Paris this Monday, Librairie La Compagnie is running an event with Philippe Descola on his new book, Politiques du faire-monde at 19:00 www.seuil.com/ouvrage/poli...
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
For those lucky enough to be in Paris this Monday, Librairie La Compagnie is running an event with Philippe Descola on his new book, Politiques du faire-monde at 19:00 www.seuil.com/ouvrage/poli...
Remembering Pier Paolo Pasolini who was brutally murdered 50 years ago in Ostia by still "unknown others", and the poetry, novels, films, theatre plays and essays he so generously bequeathed us contra "the disappearance of the fireflies"
November 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Remembering Pier Paolo Pasolini who was brutally murdered 50 years ago in Ostia by still "unknown others", and the poetry, novels, films, theatre plays and essays he so generously bequeathed us contra "the disappearance of the fireflies"
The Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU will be running a series of events, 3-14 November, on "Pasolini: Politics & Poetry" www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
October 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU will be running a series of events, 3-14 November, on "Pasolini: Politics & Poetry" www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
A great exhibition opening today at the Cineteca Bologna on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini cinetecadibologna.it/programmazio...
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A great exhibition opening today at the Cineteca Bologna on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini cinetecadibologna.it/programmazio...
Thanks, Stuart! Have only read it in its Greek translation - an excellent one by Dimitris Dimitriadis, known to French-speaking readers from his Je meurs comme un pays (www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...)
October 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Thanks, Stuart! Have only read it in its Greek translation - an excellent one by Dimitris Dimitriadis, known to French-speaking readers from his Je meurs comme un pays (www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...)
Looking forward to the publication of Pablo Gómez's new book Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Looking forward to the publication of Pablo Gómez's new book Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Some great chapters in this new edited volume on approaches to and discourses around plague in the XIV-XVIII centuries - Le Discours sur la peste: Autorités, expériences, expérimentations sous l’Ancien Régime
classiques-garnier.com/le-discours-...
classiques-garnier.com/le-discours-...
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Some great chapters in this new edited volume on approaches to and discourses around plague in the XIV-XVIII centuries - Le Discours sur la peste: Autorités, expériences, expérimentations sous l’Ancien Régime
classiques-garnier.com/le-discours-...
classiques-garnier.com/le-discours-...
So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Looking forward to the second issue of Les Nouveaux Cahiers Castoriadis, appearing later this month classiques-garnier.com/new/NccMS02
October 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Looking forward to the second issue of Les Nouveaux Cahiers Castoriadis, appearing later this month classiques-garnier.com/new/NccMS02
Top priority reading for October, Carlo Ginzburg's book on Marc Bloch, and Georges Didi-Huberman Les Anges de l'Histoire - both just published this month
October 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Top priority reading for October, Carlo Ginzburg's book on Marc Bloch, and Georges Didi-Huberman Les Anges de l'Histoire - both just published this month
Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social
This term's event programme by the new Research Network @crasshlive.bsky.social "Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds" is now live with registration opening soon for the opening event on October 15 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/net...
September 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This term's event programme by the new Research Network @crasshlive.bsky.social "Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds" is now live with registration opening soon for the opening event on October 15 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/net...
Looking forward to the publication of Deleuze's 1979-1980 lectures on the the state apparatus and the war machine (Sur l'appareil d'État et la machine de guerre) www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Sur_l_...
September 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Looking forward to the publication of Deleuze's 1979-1980 lectures on the the state apparatus and the war machine (Sur l'appareil d'État et la machine de guerre) www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Sur_l_...
Remembering Walter Benjamin today - and re-reading Sami Khatib's superb anti-melancholic approach to his "Angel of History” www.crisiscritique.org/storage/app/...
September 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Remembering Walter Benjamin today - and re-reading Sami Khatib's superb anti-melancholic approach to his "Angel of History” www.crisiscritique.org/storage/app/...
Looking forward to the first Departmental seminar of the new academic year @standrewsanthro.bsky.social with Peter Wade presenting on "Modes of Decolonial and Anti-Racist Intervention in the Art World: Two Cases from Brazil and Argentina" - tomorrow at 14:00
September 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Looking forward to the first Departmental seminar of the new academic year @standrewsanthro.bsky.social with Peter Wade presenting on "Modes of Decolonial and Anti-Racist Intervention in the Art World: Two Cases from Brazil and Argentina" - tomorrow at 14:00
Including on Bloch's correspondence with Marcel Mauss
September 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Including on Bloch's correspondence with Marcel Mauss
A very good introduction to Elisée Reclus's life and thought by Roméo Bondon: Élisée Reclus & la solidarité terrestre www.lepassagerclandestin.fr/catalogue/pr...
September 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A very good introduction to Elisée Reclus's life and thought by Roméo Bondon: Élisée Reclus & la solidarité terrestre www.lepassagerclandestin.fr/catalogue/pr...
Looking forward to this great workshop on the topic of "Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health" organised by @emmanuelleroth.bsky.social and @greggmitman.bsky.social www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...
September 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Looking forward to this great workshop on the topic of "Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health" organised by @emmanuelleroth.bsky.social and @greggmitman.bsky.social www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...
Congratulations from the Global War Against the Rat project team to Oliver French for having successfully defended his PhD Thesis "Vermin in Society: Plague, Pests and Poisons at the Dawn of Zoonosis" - a historical anthropological study of rat poisoning as an anti-plague measure in colonial India
September 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Congratulations from the Global War Against the Rat project team to Oliver French for having successfully defended his PhD Thesis "Vermin in Society: Plague, Pests and Poisons at the Dawn of Zoonosis" - a historical anthropological study of rat poisoning as an anti-plague measure in colonial India
A brilliant new book on the visual history of the Rockefeller Foundation and Yellow Fever in Brazil @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social - A Fundação Rockefeller no Brasil: imagens do combate à febre amarela e à malária agencia.fiocruz.br/fiocruz-lanc...
September 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A brilliant new book on the visual history of the Rockefeller Foundation and Yellow Fever in Brazil @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social - A Fundação Rockefeller no Brasil: imagens do combate à febre amarela e à malária agencia.fiocruz.br/fiocruz-lanc...
A big thanks to the archivists and librarians of the Archives diplomatiques (La Courneuve), @pasteur.fr, the Bibliothèque de l'Académie nationale de médecine, and BIU Santé Médecine for their wonderful help with research into the history of zoonosis over the past 2 weeks
September 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A big thanks to the archivists and librarians of the Archives diplomatiques (La Courneuve), @pasteur.fr, the Bibliothèque de l'Académie nationale de médecine, and BIU Santé Médecine for their wonderful help with research into the history of zoonosis over the past 2 weeks
Remembering Salvador Allende, on this 52nd anniversary of the golpe in Chile, and all those killed, tortured and disappeared for standing up against tyranny
September 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Remembering Salvador Allende, on this 52nd anniversary of the golpe in Chile, and all those killed, tortured and disappeared for standing up against tyranny
An essential read as the new academic year begins. It is high time for Universities to stop peddling so-called AI to students and staff and focus on real education and research instead
September 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
An essential read as the new academic year begins. It is high time for Universities to stop peddling so-called AI to students and staff and focus on real education and research instead