Kaczynskian
English
Etymology
Kaczynski + -an
Adjective
Kaczynskian (comparative more Kaczynskian, superlative most Kaczynskian)
- Of or relating to Ted Kaczynski (born 1942), 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.
- 2001, Eddie Newton, 40 Days (page 255)
- […] he could have imagined them as some Kaczynskian Bonnie and Clyde crossing the country maiming and killing, torturing and having a few chuckles.
- 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.
- 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, […]
- 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.
- 2001, Eddie Newton, 40 Days (page 255)