Meaning of Kaczynskian | Babel Free

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Of or relating to Ted Kaczynski (1942-2023), American former mathematics professor who engaged in a nationwide bombing campaign as the Unabomber against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the environment.

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“[…] he could have imagined them as some Kaczynskian Bonnie and Clyde crossing the country maiming and killing, torturing and having a few chuckles.”

“But he was beginning to feel like a crackpot of Kaczynskian proportions. Paul wished he could turn his anger into action.”

“Short of a determined, Kaczynskian flight from the consensual world and all its entanglements, the algorithmic management of life chances in particular will still exert tremendous pressure on the shape of one's choices, […]”

“While attackers often share a critical framework with obvious Marxist, anarchist, poststructuralist, Tiqqunist, Kaczynskian or FAI/CCFian thought, the events build from one another and not a shared text-centric critique.”

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