Taija Mars McDougall

Taija Mars McDougall completed their PhD at the University of California, Irvine in Culture and Theory. Their research interrogates Blackness, race, monetary theory, and psychoanalysis. Their current monograph project titled  Held Here by Nothing contends with the figure of the black insurrectionary and asks what is it that we desire when we desire the end of the world through an analysis of the political and theoretical collision of George Jackson’s prison writings and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Taija’s other research is an immanent critique of contemporary Black Studies to propose a competing notion of blackness through political and libidinal economy. Their work has been published in liquid blackness, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, and Propter Nos.