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: openDemocracyUKVote Yes for the multitude: a non-nationalist argument for Scottish independenceIs nationalism the sole reason for a 'yes' vote in the Scottish Referendum, or is the argument too restricted in its...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The scapegoats of Empire: racism and resistance in the city of romanceAs the citizens of Venice propagate myths about the city’s expanding 'oriental' workforce they humiliate members of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhen a fire starts to burn: who wants to be national?
In this concluding piece of the re-birth of the nation series, the editor asks what these articles tell us about the...
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Published in: HomeThe torture machines: poetic space and the urgency of non-work
In 1977 the autonomist collective A/Traverso were violently arrested by the Italian state. While the majority of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNationhood and the multitude: a new form of political subject?In the frantic search to find an agreed name for emerging forms of collective agency, ‘the nation’ is frequently...
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Published in: HomePostmodern populism: the cultural logic of the MoVimento 5 StelleBeppe Grillo's Five Star Movement has often been called a shake-up for Italian politics. But what if 'M5S' really...