Martín Plot (PhD, New School for Social Research, 2004--Alfred Schutz Memorial Award in Philosophy and Sociology) was full-time, regular faculty at the CalArts’ School of Critical Studies from 2003 to 2015. Since then, he has become a Research Fellow in Political Thought in the CalArts’ MA Aesthetics and Politics program and he is also a Research Professor of Political Theory at the Argentine CONICET. He works in the fields of political and social theory/philosophy, Latin American studies, cultural and political sociology, and American politics.
He is the author of the following books: Chaos and Cosmos. The Imaginary and the Political in Jorge Luis Borges (Bloomsbury, 2024,) La matriz de sentido (Prometeo, 2024,) The Aesthetico-Political. The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière (Bloomsbury, 2014 and 2016,) Indivisible (Prometeo, 2011), La Carne de lo Social (Prometeo, 2008), and El Kitsch Político (Prometeo, 2003) and has published in multiple academic journals, including Parallax, Contributions to the History of Concepts, The International Journal of Social Imaginaries, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Social Imaginaries, Cadernos de Etica e Filosofia Politica, Anacronismo e Irrupción, Temas y Debates, Continental Philosophy Review, Constellations, Theory and Event, International Journal of Communication, among many others. He has also edited the following collective books: Estética, Política, Dialéctica (Prometeo, 2015,) Claude Lefort, Thinker of the Political (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Critical Theory and Democracy (Routledge, 2012.)
Martín’s current research focuses on the questions of power, truth, and freedom in social and political theory and the aesthetico-political figures of them being delineated in the contemporary social imaginary. Regarding the latter, he focusses specifically on the cases of Donal Trump and Javier Milei’s movements in the United States and Argentina respectively. Regarding his theoretical work on the notions of power, truth, and freedom, he is intertwining the legacies of political phenomenology, Latin American theory, and American pragmatism as a means of offering a more accurate and illuminating understanding of our troubled times.
