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  MSN Encarta - Search View - Unabomber
During this period, the Unabomber received extensive attention in the news media for the ingenuity of his explosive devices; for his extreme statements of opposition to science, industry, and technology; and for his success in eluding detection and capture.
In this document, the Unabomber declared “the industrial-technological system” to be a “disaster for the human race,” primarily because it “requires people to live under conditions radically different from those under which the human race evolved.” Many scholars dismissed the document as a stale reprise of 1960s counterculture critiques of science, technology, and industrial civilization.
Publication of the Unabomber's manifesto finally offered a critical breakthrough in the case, leading to the arrest of Theodore Kaczynski, who had lived for many years in a one-room plywood shack in the mountains of western Montana.
encarta.msn.com /text_761585870__1/Unabomber.html   (1092 words)

  
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BY KIRKPATRICK SALE The central point the Unabomber is trying to make--that "the industrial-technological system" in which we live is a social, psychological and environmental "disaster for the human race"--is absolutely crucial for the American public to understand and ought to be on the forefront of the nation's political agenda.
The Unabomber stands in a long line of anti-technology critics where I myself have stood, and his general arguments against industrial society and its consequences are quite similar to those I have recently put forth in a book on the people who might be said to have begun this tradition, the Luddites.
The Unabomber gives only a passing glance to the multiple environmental disasters the system is producing for itself and never mentions the likelihood, as chaos theory predicts, that the complex industrial house of cards will not hold.
www.eff.org /Censorship/Terrorism_militias/sale_unabomber.analysis   (1980 words)

  
 Theodore Kaczynski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Theodore John Kaczynski, Ph.D., also known as the Unabomber (born May 22, 1942) is a Polish-American terrorist who attempted to fight against what he perceived as the evils of technological progress by sending mail bombs to various people over almost eighteen years, killing three and wounding 29.
Having returned to Harvard after the war, he was involved in psychological experiments in 1959–1962 in which a stress test similar to one the O.S.S. had used to assess recruits was administered to student volunteers.
Italian Unabomber An unknown person or group who is conducting bombings in Italy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski   (2574 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Unabomber calls for a return to "wild nature" via "the complete and permanent destruction of modern industrial society in every part of the world," and the replacement of that impersonal, unfree, and alienated society by that of small, face-to-face social groupings.
Meanwhile, Unabomber operates in a context of massive psychic immiseration and loss of faith in all of the system's institutions.
Cockburn says that Unabomber represents a "rotted-out romanticism of the individual and of nature," that nature is gone forever and we'd better accept its extinction.
www.insurgentdesire.org.uk /whoseunabomber.htm   (1276 words)

  
 MetroActive CyberScape | Unabomber Manifesto
After the Unabomber's FBI-approved tome-launch party in the Washington Post last week, Jim Freeman, the G-Man-in-charge of the investigation, had this to say: "There is a high likelihood that (in reading the manuscript) people will recognize an individual who held similar philosophies whether in college or even in high school.
Moving on, the Unabomber writes that we are "over-socialized" as a nation and I think he and I are still swimming in the same lane.
Maybe the Unabomber wont throw any more explosives down the mail chute because if he sits back and waits long enough, were capable of creating our own wildly destabilized society, divided between rich and poor, power and powerlessness, good taste and really bad television.
www.metroactive.com /cyber/unamoi.html   (1105 words)

  
 Leopardi, Unabomber
Leopardi graduated from the Icelander's early theory that society is the major problem facing the individual, moving, as it were, from social pessimism to cosmic pessimism; the Unabomber, instead, appeared stuck in that romantic anti-sociality.
What made Leopardi's cultural polemic redolent of the Unabomber manifesto was his unmitigated disenchantment with the prides of his era, his boundless contempt for his contemporaries' thinking, his linkage of culture and collective deception, his dauntless unmasking of sacrosanct principles.
This is the romantic individualism that underlies Leopardi's and the Unabomber's opposition to the technological ethic.
www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/italian/faculty/harrison/Essays/Leopardi.htm   (2600 words)

  
 The Unabomber, the Economics of Happiness, and the End of the Millennium
We want to examine the Unabomber's critique of technology and not his personality or the (criminal, irrational) means he has chosen to act out this critique.[2] In particular, we will turn our attention to the social and philosophical implications of the Unabomber's writings.
The Unabomber defines a "surrogate activity" as an activity that is "directed towards an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the sake of the 'fulfilment' that they get from pursuing the goal" (U39).
The Unabomber's manifesto instead suggests that it is a category mistake of millennial proportions to confuse scientific and technological progress with the increase of human happiness.
www.abdn.ac.uk /philosophy/endsandmeans/vol3no1/kujundzic_mann.shtml   (4847 words)

  
 Unabomber myth was intriguing
The top story was something I never honestly expected to hear: that a suspect had been arrested in the Unabomber case, which had become, over the past 18 years, the longest, most expensive manhunt in U.S. history.
Of course, the ultimate irony of the Unabomber is that in order to destroy industrial society he had to embrace it.
Thus, if he is the Unabomber, Kaczynski might find most appalling is that the segment of society he hated the most was the segment most interested in his views.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V127/N64/01-unabomber.64v.html   (788 words)

  
 The Unabomber: An Epic Hero for Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
There are also Unabomber chat forums on the Internet, there are many anarchist journals and organizations, and, as partially demonstrated by the Anarchist Guild, there are people who follow in his footsteps as criminals in the name of anarchy.
But the Unabomber is more than just a good student; he has managed to elude a team of 100 FBI agents devoted to capturing him for 17 years.
The Unabomber, despite a dash of haughtiness and his spite for the FBI, is afraid of being caught and punished.
www.rjgeib.com /about-me/faq/unabomber.html   (2109 words)

  
 Article 58 of alt.usenet.manifestoes
Unabomber has also requested that his manifesto be made available to readers of the Internet/Usenet newsgroups, and some excerpts from his message are printed here.
Since 1978, Unabomber is credited with killing three people and injuring 23 others with a series of bombs directed primarily at university researchers and their employees.
The FBI believes Unabomber moved to the Salt Lake City area in 1980, and then to northern California in 1981, where he had 'some sort of contact' with the University of California at Berkeley, where two bombs were placed.
www.emf.net /~estephen/manifesto/aum00058.html   (1322 words)

  
 WashingtonPost.com: Unabomber Special Report
It was the second time in three months that the papers' executives had met with Reno and Freeh to discuss the Unabomber's request, and the publishers agreed early on to reach a joint decision.
The Unabomber's manuscript is a densely written manifesto that calls for worldwide revolution against modern society.
Although the Unabomber writes as if he were a member of a group, the FBI believes the killer is a white man in his early forties who has acted alone.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.decsn.htm   (1399 words)

  
 Defusing the Unabomber
For one thing, to achieve the Unabomber's ideal of technology, five billion people are going to have to die; the Earth can support five million human faux-animals.
The Unabomber pursues his ideal of a humanity bereft of all but the most basic technology, and he pursues it by means of his manifesto, his own technological artifact.
The Unabomber is clearly a statist, an exponent of supplanting consensus with force and terror.
www.presenceofmind.net /GSW/Unabomber.html   (1622 words)

  
 Unabomber chronologie
De Unabomber houdt zich na deze laatste aanslag echter een tijdje gedeisd.
Het FBI-team wordt in allerijl weer in het leven geroepen, maar kan niet voorkomen dat er nog een tweede dode valt.
De Unabomber stemt erin toe dat dit blad het manifest publiceert, maar dan wil hij vanwege de "allerbelabberdste kwaliteit" van Penthouse nog één technocraat ombrengen.
www.xs4all.nl /%7Eravijn/unabom/unainl.htm   (1383 words)

  
 PAGE ONE -- Unabomber Calls Threat a Prank / But security at airports remains tight
At a press conference yesterday afternoon, the FBI confirmed that the Unabomber was indeed the author of the letter to The Chronicle that contained the jetliner threat.
The Unabomber asked the Times and other publications to publish a long article that would elaborate on his self-styled anarchistic ideas and theories about how modern technology, in his words, is crushing humanity.
After this latest flurry in the UNABOM investigation, experts said it is clear that the Unabomber, jealous of the notoriety surrounding Timothy McVeigh, the chief suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing two months ago, may be craving more recognition and may also be sliding quickly into a paranoid state.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1995/06/29/MN17632.DTL&type=printable   (1368 words)

  
 Poynter Online - The Post, the Times, and the Unabomber
The Unabomber himself is a stakeholder, though it is extremely difficult to find legitimate motivation in his actions.
The Unabomber is a killer, and his standing as an authentic stakeholder is all but eliminated.
It is conceivable that the Unabomber might cease this terrorism if the papers accede to his demands and print his 35,000 word manifesto.
www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=5642&sid=32   (2429 words)

  
 CNN - Unabomber suspect in custody - Apr. 3, 1996
The suspect was taken into custody when he resisted an effort to search his home in Lincoln, according to law enforcement sources and a saw mill owner whose property the FBI used as a staging area for the raid.
The Unabomber, so called because his first mail bomb attacks targeted universities and airlines, first surfaced on May 25, 1978, when a package was found in a campus parking lot at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Shortly thereafter, the Unabomber made national headlines in a different way, demanding in June that that national newspapers publish his eight-page, 35,000-word "manifesto," a diatribe against technology.
www-cgi.cnn.com /US/9604/03/unabomber   (728 words)

  
 Current Events: The mad bomber? Trial will decide if Ted Kaczynski is the crazed Unabomber - Cover Story
The Unabomber's last package bomb victim was Gilbert Murray, 47, a California forestry official, who was killed on April 24, 1995.
In between, the Unabomber left a bloody trail of death, destruction and injury that had the FBI puzzled for years.
It is that kind of evidence that prosecutors are using to try to persuade a jury that Ted is the Unabomber and should be given the death sentence for his crimes.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n13_v97/ai_20165367   (1038 words)

  
 Unabomber Investigation Continues
The members at the Unabomber task force headquarters in San Francisco are currently looking at a number of "Robert Vs" at the moment.
Psychologists believe that the Unabomber is a loner and is unlikely to have ever been a member of an organized political group.
The Unabomber is believed to have attended either Northwestern University in Evanston or the University of Illinois.
www.emergency.com /unabom3.htm   (774 words)

  
 ESCAPE VELOCITY - - "Wild Nature" (The Unabomber Meets the Digerati)
Before the FBI dubbed him the Unabomber, investigators called Kaczynski the "junkyard bomber" in reference to the fact that his engines of destruction were concocted from lamp cords, sink traps, furniture parts, old screws, match heads, and pieces of pipe.
The Unabomber's radical libertarian vision of a post-political body politic, decomposed into scattered cells, is the missing link between Wild Nature and wired nature, and the toggle switch that connects the Unabomber to cyberpunk on one hand and to cybercapitalism on the other.
In a crowning irony, the Unabomber's call for the atomization of the nation-state resonates sympathetically with the Tofflerist-Gingrichist rhetoric of decentralization, demassification, and desynchronization dear to the hearts of Wired editors and the laissez-faire futurists they lionize (George Gilder, Peter Drucker, Peter Schwartz, and their ilk).
www.levity.com /markdery/ESCAPE/VELOCITY/author/wildnature.html   (1616 words)

  
 roundtable: Re: FW: Unabomber manifesto text online? (fwd)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Red, I would not sustain the murderous conduct of the Unabomber and likely copycats, by accepting negotiations based on threats of murder, but move decisively to deal with the underlying problem.
While the alternative suggested by the Unabomber is questionable, I believe that many reasonable people would agree with the premise.
The solution to unilateral decision making is not so obscure, it is the core substance of democracy both as ends and as means, and we should be building the social movement to enlarge to the maximum extent practical the meaningful participation of citizens in the process of decision making that affect their lives.
www.cni.org /Hforums/roundtable/1995-03/0175.html   (309 words)

  
 Unabomber
The Unabomber's manifesto, submitted to Penthouse magazine and a couple of newspapers, identified a bunch of pet peeves: overcrowding, dissociation from nature, social conformity, rapid pace of technological change, consumerism, corporate domination, etc.
One professor at the University of Wisconsin praised the Unabomber's masterful grammar and punctutation.
Letters containing the Unabomber's manifesto are mailed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/serial-killers/unabomer   (1684 words)

  
 TIME/CNN - The Unabomb Trial
Written in English, Spanish and sometimes code (which was deciphered using a key found in the cabin), the journals are filled with the methodical observations of a man driven to kill his enemies by building the perfect bomb.
Insanity, the most obvious defense, was never an option because it would have required Kaczynski's lawyers to argue that he either did not know what he was doing or did not know it was wrong.
So now, in the likely event that Kaczynski is convicted, the defense's plan is to wait for the sentencing phase of the trial and raise his mental condition as a mitigating factor.
www.time.com /time/reports/unabomber/980112_jackson.html   (772 words)

  
 The Ayn Rand Institute: The "Green" Unabomber
As Ted Kaczynski goes on trial for the terrorist attacks attributed to the Unabomber, many are lamenting the bad press he has brought to the environmentalist movement.
In the cause of preserving "wild nature," the Unabomber, in his "manifesto," calls for a "revolution against the industrial system." He acknowledges that, as a result, "many people will die" because the world's population "cannot even feed itself.
Kaczynski's prosecutors have argued that they should be allowed to ask for the death penalty because the Unabomber's writings show a "hatred of people." It is time to ask whether the same accusation can be leveled against the environmentalist movement as a whole.
www.aynrand.org /site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5399&news_iv_ctrl=1021   (691 words)

  
 Unabomber will strike again, says FBI profiler
The Unabomber is believed to be a white man now living or working around San Francisco.
Douglas was intrigued by the Unabomber's hastily withdrawn threat to blow up a Los Angeles airliner in June.
The manifesto reaffirmed for Douglas his picture of the Unabomber as now in his late 30s or 40s, meticulous -- he spray-painted the inside of some of his bombs -underachieving, intelligent and relatively anti-social.
www.corpus-delicti.com /profiles_unadoug1.html   (831 words)

  
 Search: Unabomber - FOX News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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search.foxnews.com /info.foxnws/redirs_all.htm?pgtarg=wbsdogpile&qcat=web&qkw=Unabomber   (422 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Unabomber
Spend less time searching and more time learning.
Unabomber, terrorist and anarchist whose homemade bombs killed three people and wounded 23 others in 16 separate incidents in the United States from 1978 to 1995.
By 1995 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had spent more than $50 million in what had become the longest and most extensive search in the history of the agency.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761585870/Unabomber.html   (1039 words)

  
 The Smoking Gun: The Unabomber's Media Pen Pals
But it has not been for a lack of trying (not to mention a certain amount of cloying and pandering).
The Smoking Gun has obtained a variety of letters sent to the imprisoned Unabomber by media figures seeking an audience with the convicted serial killer.
These pitch letters are included in files recently donated by Kaczynski to the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library (which provided them to TSG).
www.thesmokinggun.com /unabomber2/unabomber.shtml   (234 words)

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