Entries tagged with Laura (Riding) Jackson

Event 19: I Met (LRJ)

I Met (LRJ)
28 October 2010
“Laura (Riding) Jackson
in the Twenty-First Century”
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

Catherine Taylor
Stephen Cope
Carla Billiterri
Laurel Blossom
Julia Fiedorczuk
Joshua Clover
Jeff Hamilton
Mark Jacobs
John Nolan
Elizabeth Friedmann
Caroll Ann Friedmann
René VanDeVoorde

Image 04: The Author as Site

Laura (Riding) Jackson Home, Orchid Island, Fla. Photo (c) Barrett Watten 2009.

At various points in my lectures on Laura (Riding) Jackson last November, I suggested that her work could be compared to the literal monument that the LRJ Home Preservation Project had displaced and transported from its original site in Wabasso, across the Intercoastal Waterway to Orchid Island. (Riding) Jackson’s work on language suggests an overarching project of meaning as “site,” with the act of rational definition, perhaps, plotting its contours. … More

“The House of Language: Laura (Riding) Jackson’s Rational Meaning
          and the Truth of Experience”

10 AM–12 PM, Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Laura Riding Jackson House/Environmental Learning Center, Vero Beach, Fla.
Sponsored by Florida Atlantic University and the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation

Installation of text from Rational Meaning at the Laura (Riding) Jackson House, Orchid Island, Fla., November 2009. Copyright (c) Barrett Watten 2009.

On 18 November 2009, I lectured on Laura (Riding) Jackson’s culminating work, Rational Meaning, which she wrote with Schuyler B. Jackson until his decease and then finished herself. … More