Martín Plot works in the fields of cultural, social, and political theory. He also conducts research and writes on American and Latin American political culture and democratic politics. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Buenos Aires, an M.A. from the Institute for Advanced Social Studies (UNSAM) and a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. Plot is the author of El Kitsch Político (Political Kitsch,) published in 2003 and La Carne de lo Social (The Flesh of the Social,) published in 2007, both in Argentina. He is also the author of several articles and papers published in academic journals or presented at a variety of conferences and seminars. Before coming to CalArts, Martín Plot taught at the University of Buenos Aires, Parsons School of Design, and Columbia University. Currently, his research focuses on two major subjects. On the one hand, he continues to write and publish on questions of political action and democratic theory, with an empirical concentration on contemporary American and Argentine politics. In particular, he is now working on the significant shifts in political discourse and the very understanding of the regime that have characterized the United States since, first, the Impeachment to President Clinton, and, second, the terrorist attacks of 9/11. On the other hand, his theoretical work, which usually deals with the intersection of political and aesthetic thought, continues to develop the political implications of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetic theory that were first outlined in his previous work. The final product of this research will be a book to be published in 2008 by Prometeo under the title Merleau-Ponty y lo Político (Merleau-Ponty and the Political.) Finally, he is now on the first stages of a long-term project entitled “Notes from Tlön” and focused on Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’ work and its relationship to Twentieth Century political thought. This research will attempt to develop the articulations between Borges’ fictions and ideas, and the political theorizing of Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Theodore Adorno, Robert Nozick, Claude Lefort, and Jacques Ranciere.