Emanuele Toscano

<p>Emanuele Toscano is a researcher at â€œSapienzaâ€ University in Rome and associate fellow at <a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/crer/">Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations</a> (CRER) at

Berlusconi’s politics of an eternal present

Berlusconi dictates an idea of the eternal present based upon a model of eternal youth and embodied in the narcissistic cult of the self. But there is a democratic affirmation of the individual that can replace this with a narrative that builds our collective future

By Emanuele Toscano

/ 12 Dec 2010

I'm my personal revolution: the Purple Movement in Italy

What has allowed Italy's 'purple movement', growing out of a relatively small number of web users, to mobilise dissatisfaction across the country from north to south? The answer holds up a cruel mirror to the old collective forms of resistance, as well as sending a warning to Italy's governing cla

By Emanuele Toscano

/ 26 May 2010