Daniel Sacilotto is a Professor in Critical Studies at The California Institute of the Arts, and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on the methodological relation between epistemology and ontology in contemporary philosophy, and the history of utopian and universalist thought in Latin America. He is the author of Structure and Thought: Toward a Theory of Representational Cognition(forthcoming, Northwestern Press), and Universality and Utopia: the 20th Century Peruvian Socialist Indigenista Tradition (forthcoming, Anthem Press).