Martin Plot
1:00pm-2:00pm | Park Stage | State of the Union
Martín Plot (Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 2004 – Alfred Schutz Memorial Award in Philosophy and Sociology) teaches at CalArts’ Aesthetics and Politics Program. He works in the fields of political and social theory and conducts research and writes on American and Latin American political culture and democratic politics. He is the author of Indivisible (2011), La Carne de lo Social (2008), and El Kitsch Político (2003). He has also edited and co-edited several books and published in Continental Philosophy Review, Constellations, Theory and Event, Umbrales, International Journal of Communication, Le monde diplomatique, Punto de vista, among other journals and reviews. He is currently editing Claude Lefort, Thinker of the Political (Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editing Critical Theory and Democracy. Civil Society, Dictatorship, and Constitutionalism in Andrew Arato’s Democratic Theory (Routledge.)