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: openDemocracyUKRe-birth of the nation? A new series challenging all ‘global citizens’
The ‘death of the nation’ is a fallacy. As austerity erodes national sovereignty, the logic of globalization is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK'Another world is possible': nationhood and global justice
Globalisation has depended upon a unitary idea of progress. Now it's time to look again at national space and its...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe far right beyond the stereotype: monetarism, media and the middle classes
Daniel Trilling, author of the new book Bloody Nasty People, talks to Jamie Mackay about the prevailing myths...
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Published in: ourBeebourBeeb podcast 3: Richard Eyre on "the most important cultural institution in Britain"
Richard Eyre joins ourBeeb for a fascinating discussion of the BBC's unique role in British culture.
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Published in: ourBeebCanon fodder: how the BBC can get beyond the Bard and define the future of fiction
When the BBC fixates on a narrow literary canon, and presents classic novels in straightforward adaptations, it...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEmpire for the entrepreneurs: London’s Shard is officially ‘open to the world’
The forces of spectacle were effervescent at last week’s Shard opening. In an immoderate display of vogue technology...