Jamie Mackay (@JacMackay) is a writer, translator and critic based in Florence. His essays on art and politics have appeared in magazines and cultural journals across Europe including Frieze, the London Review of Books and Internazionale. He is the Italy correspondent for Krytyka Polityczna and the author of The Invention of Sicily, which is forthcoming from Verso books.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWho am I without Britain?For as long as I can remember I've been wrestling with a deep and personal resentment of Britain. As a new emigrant...
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Published in: HomeRome’s rebel lake is a parable of the contemporary commonsEarlier this summer activists in Rome won the right to self-manage a vast lake in the city’s capital, effectively...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe, the precariatUnemployed, part-time, underpaid, zero-houred, redundant. An increasing proportion of Europeans live uncertain...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy can no longer ignore its clandestine pastThe Five Star Movement owes much of its success to Beppe Grillo's ahistorical populism. This tactic, though, is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA violent education: Dizzee Rascal and the fears of British neoliberalismDizzee Rascal’s new music video is a thinly veiled defence of a failing British state. As new forms of solidarity...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNot just 4 lulz: Anonymous vs mass surveillance
Anonymous yesterday organised a simultaneous protest around the world against the revelations of mass surveillance...