Kooks!

Donna Kossy, editor of Kooks zine, "boldly blazes new trails in the vast intellectual wilderness of American writers, thinkers and philosophers who were or are completely nuts." (Review, Bruce Sterling, 1999).

Kooks on the web (http://www.teleport.com/~dkossy/kooksmus... ) contains a huge amount of fascinating information on kooks, eccentrics, and bizarre beliefs. Check out the Schizophrenic Wing, the Conspiracy Corridor, Hall of Hate, and the Library of Questionable Scholarship!

What is the Kook's Museum? In editor Donna Kossy's own words:
"As curator and founder of the first Kooks Museum in history I am fulfilling a half-life-long goal of housing kook ideas from all over the world under one crumbling roof. Here, my Solution To The World Problem collection will finally have a home. Here, many small religious groups will meet each other face to face, to battle it out for the title, "Ten Lost Tribes of Israel." Here ancient perpetual motion devices will sit side-by-side with the latest in anti-gravity technology.

The point of all this excess is neither to debunk nor to proselytize. Rather, my intent is to document and study the vast cornucopia of forgotten, discredited and extreme ideas, with all due consideration to social and cultural context.

Nor do I think all ideas are equally valid. Rather, I try to be both open-minded to and skeptical of them. This precarious balancing act is a lot easier if you've read hundreds of bizarre documents over the course of more than ten years, like I have."

Interview from the Book of Zines with Donna Kossy: http://www.zinebook.com/interv/kooks.html

Kooks Museum: http://www.teleport.com/~dkossy/kooksmus...

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