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| | 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). |
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