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: openDemocracyUKBritain from above: blue sky topography in the second age of synergyOver 16,000 aerial photographs capturing history dating from near the beginning of the last century were made freely...
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Published in: ourBeebFrom 'special interest' to public interest: minority programming and the BBC’s democratic mandateOne of the BBC's most lauded strengths is its ability to tailor programming for its audiences' special interests....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWelcome to the “Great British Summer”
The arrival of the ‘Great British Summer’ has been marked by relentless propagandising and shocking displays of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHooligans, hacks and highbrows: addressing the disconnect between Britain’s media and universities
The UK's media and universities have for too long fostered a destructive antagonism. But in a context in which both...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMad Men blowing smoke rings: financial advertising and the political imaginationThe highly acclaimed return of Mad Men to British TV brings the ethics of advertising back into the cultural...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK‘Epic Win’ for Anonymous? Hacktivism and the 99%The Anonymous 'V for Vendetta' mask is an icon of the Occupy movement. But how does this band of deviant web pirates...