Related Texts
Some references: written by, recommended by, or mentioned by Ted Kaczynski and/or the Unabomber and/or victims of such, plus some text related to the case
References from "Industrial Society and It's Future" by FC:
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Violence In America: a Historical and Comparative Perspective, Graham and Gurr, eds, Government sponsored collection of articles
"Seeking the Criminal Element" Scientific American, W. Wayt Gibbs, March 1995
FC: If society needs a large, powerful law enforcement establishment, then there is something gravely wrong with that society;Wall Street Journal
New York Times, April 21, 1995, "We live in a world in which relatively few people--maybe 500 or 1,000--make the important decisions" - Philip B. Heymann of Harvard Law School, quoted by Anthony Lewis
quote of Claude Shannon in Omni Aug 1987
(FC: Paragraph 152) However, some psychologists have publicly expressed opinions indicating their contempt for human freedom. And the mathematician Claude Shannon was quoted in Omni (August 1987) as saying, "I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines."The Ancient Engineers, L. Spague de Camp; according to the librarian in Lincoln, Montana, this is Kaczynski's favorite book and author. [ This is a breach of librarian-borrower confidentiality.]
FC letter to the NY Times: "We would not want anyone to think that we have any desire to hurt professors who study archaeology, history, literature or harmless stuff like that." (emphasis added)Chinese Political Theory in the Twentieth Century, Chester C. Tan
The True Believer Eric Hoffer. 1951. The FBI took the copy from the UC Davis library during its investigation, according to a tv report. This is a fairly well-known book (although I have not read it. It wasn't on the shelf in the public library when I looked either, although in the catalog. [update. I got a copy out of the garbage of a second hand book shop. It is worthy.]) But I happen to have another Hoffer book, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront, on the back cover of which we read: "From 1943 until his recent retirement Eric Hoffer was a San Franscisco longshoreman. He had previously been a migratory field laborer and a gold miner. He now spends one day a week as research professor at the University of California in Berkeley." This book was published in 1969, thus overlapping the period of Kaczynski's professorship. One wonders if Kaczynski had any contact with Hoffer, perhaps heard a lecture or such
Found in the cabin:
" June 21, 1993, "Litha" edition of Earth First!
Journal, which asserted (erroneously) that Burson-Marsteller, the public
relations firm Thomas Mosser worked for, helped Exxon clean up its image after
the Exxon Valdez oil spill"
In a letter to the New York Times, the Unabomber explains his position: He has nothing against humanities professors, only scientists. "All the university people whom we have attacked have been specialists in technical fields," the famous fugitive writes. "We would not want anyone to think that we have any desire to hurt professors who study archaeology, history, literature, or harmless stuff like that." LF's R.J. Lambrose reports that due to the Unabomber's suspiciously "high-powered vocabulary" and his use of words like "anomie," the FBI's sleuths have subpoenaed the subscription lists for the journal Critical Sociology.
Also, Berkeley publisher Jolly Roger Press is reported to have been required to have turned over their lists of mail-order purchasers of their edition of Industrial Society.... A requirement becoming so burdonsome that they switched to only dealing with distributors.
For some books debating the issues of technological development some references, excerpts and full length works, much more incisive than "Industrial Society and its Future"
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From de Camp
The Fringe of The Unknown L. Sprague de Camp, Prometheus Books, 1983, collection of articles about Egyptology, ancient cultures; extinct dinosauars, mastodons; scientists, eccentric and psuedo-science
Relevant Quotes:
"Even a "pure" scientist, relieved as far as possible of administrative and routine tasks, will have to learn something of administration in order to manage his assistants. True, some very special scientists like mathematicians work without assistants -- without any equipment save a pencil and paper and some reference books." p129 set off in blue pencil by a reader in the copy at Berkeley Public Library
"One pattern appears quite often among scientists: the shy, withdrawn man either too absorbed in his ideas, too timid socially, or too tepid in his sexual urges to pursue any line of sexual enterprise to success. He never marries, but spends his life in near or complete chastity. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, J. Willard Gibbs. and Samuel Pierpont Langley seen to have been of this type." p143
Oakland Tribune April 6, 1996:
Montana book store
owner:
"...[Kaczynski] often bought inexpensive, obscure books, including old
textbooks, at her shop, Aunt Bonnies's Books, and "What he took out were very
obscure stuff, stuff that people often don't bother with, stuff we would often
toss."
Works by David Gelernter:
Languages and compilers for parallel
computing edited by David Gelernter, Alexandru Nicolau, and David Padua.
London : Pitman ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1990. Series title: Research
monographs in parallel and distributed computing.
Programming
linguistics David Gelernter, Suresh Jagannathan. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT
Press, c1990.
How to write parallel programs : a first course
Nicholas Carriero, David Gelernter. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
c1990.
Mirror worlds, or, The day software puts the universe in a
shoebox-- : how it will happen and what it will mean New York : Oxford
University Press, 1991.
The muse in the machine : computerizing the
poetry of human thought New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell
Macmillan Canada; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International,
c1994.
BOOKS Found In The Montana:
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Les Miserables, Victor Hugo, Vol 1 & 2; not sure if this is French or English version
Growing Up Absurd Paul Goodman; 1961 social criticism
6 books on "Eastern Mysticism"
Comes the Comrade, novel about Hungarian village, under Nazis, then Soviets
Asimov's" Guide to the Bible
Holy Bible Dictionary Concordance
and soon to be a best seller, a large envelope marked "Autobiography"
Other Bombers In literature:
Frank Harris The Bomb, 1908.
About the Chicago Haymarket Square anarchist explosion of 1886, and subsequent
trial. Now online on an
Internet near you. The Foreword says that this account is only lightly
fictionalized. Introduction by John Dos Passos, "Frank Harris was an
objectionable little man...."
Anatole France
Penquin
Island. especially the last chapter
Joseph
Conrad The
Secret Agent
G. Bernard Shaw Major
Barbara, with First Aid to Critics. Speculation was that Eugene
O'Neill had something to do with the Haymarket bombings, since many of the unabomber's
mail bombs had Eugene O'Neill stamps. His plays The Iceman Cometh
and The Hairy Ape have anarchist characters, one who advocates
bombing factories. (I got this info from a newspaper so it could be completely
wrong.) Unread by this reviewer. According to Mercury Center, O'Neill was "an
ardent and vocal supporter of anarchists". France, Shaw, and O'Neill all won Nobel
Prizes for Literature.
From the
World
Civilization Reader, an historical account of a bombing in
pre-Revolutionary Russia: Maria Sukloff,
"The Story of an Assassination" (1914)
Live Wild or Die environmental activist info sheet; supposed
source of a "hit list" they speculate the unabomber may have seen.
Live Wild of Die #8, "When Nonviolence is Suicide."
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