TRACT/TRACE is not a project so much as a projection: gesturing towards the future, a virtual and physical site of inquiry. We are interested in creating the space for a collaborative experiment somewhere between book and journal, blog and conversation.
We see TRACT/TRACE as a type of blueprint of investigations into poetics and poetic practice.
TRACT/TRACE hopes to foster a space for conversation, writing, correspondence, a science laboratory and graphic design studio for writers: a site of experiment but also presentation: a gallery space for linguistic alchemy. Writing towards the edge of what is both vital and unknown.
TRACT/TRACE is a place for queer, marginalized, and otherwise undercommon voices; for writers of and in the body; for discussions on community and survival; for activists; for lovers; for phenomenologists and all types of feelers; for organisms who believe in a livable life; for sussing out tactics for a livable future.
Rebecca Conroy on 26 May 12The Joseph A. Labadie Collection is the oldest research collection of radical history in the United States, documenting a wide variety of international social protest movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is named for anarchist and labor organizer Joseph Antoine Labadie (1850-1933). Use of the Labadie Collection is open to all researchers, although special conditions govern the use of manuscript materials and researchers are urged to write or call ahead. Cataloged books, serials, pamphlets, and archival collections may be found in the University Library's on-line catalog, Mirlyn. A listing of some other materials can be found on the menu to the left. Duplication services are available, subject to the condition of the material and copyright or donor restrictions.