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Kaczynskian
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English
Etymology
From en Kaczynski an.
Adjective
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.
en 2001 Eddie Newton 40 Days 255 he could have imagined them as some Kaczynskian Bonnie and Clyde crossing the country maiming and killing, torturing and having a few chuckles.
en 2011 Bill Fitzhugh The Organ Grinders But he was beginning to feel like a crackpot of Kaczynskian proportions. Paul wished he could turn his anger into action.
en 2017 Adam Greenfield Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life 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,
en 2017 Michael Loadenthal The politics of attack: Communiqués and insurrectionary violence 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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