Some references: written by, recommended by, or mentioned by Ted Kaczynski and/or the Unabomber and/or victims of such, plus some related texts, sort of mixed together. Latest update July 31, 1999. (Warning: there may be inaccuracies; I am limited to what I hear in the paper or read on tv.)
References from "Industrial Society and It's Future" by FC:
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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I became interested in L. Spague de Camp so I checked out a
book of his (Ancient Engineers was not available)
:
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 psuedoscientific
some 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 asistants. 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pencil by a reader in the copy at Berkeley Public Library"One pattern appears quite often among scientists: the shy, withdrawn man either too absorbed in his ideas, too timid socially, or too tepid in his sexual urges to pursue any line of sexual enterprise to success.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
blurb: "L.Spague de Camp is best known as a writer of fantasy and science fiction and has written authoritatively in many other fields. He is the author of more than 95 books"
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.""
Items Authored by: Kaczynski, T. J.
Kaczynski, T.J. 1967. Boundary Functions [doctoral dissertation].
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
Kaczynski's 1967 80 page doctoral thesis on
"boundary functions" won "best thesis of year"
in the math department at U Michigan.
Kaczynski, T.J. 1964. Another proof of Wedderburn's theorem.
Am. Math. Month. 71:652-653.
Kaczynski, T.J. 1964. Distributivity and (-1)x = -x.
Am. Math. Month. 71:689.
Kaczynski, T.J. 1965. Distributivity and (-1)x = -x [with solution by
Bilyeau, R.G.]. Am. Math. Month. 72:677-678.
Kaczynski, T. J. The set of curvilinear convergence of a
continuous function defined in the interior of a cube. Proc. Amer.
Math. Soc. 23 1969 323--327. (Reviewer: J. E. McMillan) 30.62
Kaczynski, T. J. Boundary functions and sets of
curvilinear convergence for continuous functions. Trans. Amer. Math.
Soc. 141 1969 107--125. (Reviewer: J. E. McMillan) 30.62
Kaczynski, T. J. Boundary functions for bounded harmonic
functions. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 1969 203--209. (Reviewer: J. E.
McMillan) 30.62 (31.00)
Kaczynski, T. J. Note on a problem of Alan Sutcliffe.
Math. Mag. 41 1968 84--86. (Reviewer: B. M. Stewart) 10.05
Kaczynski, T. J. On a boundary property of continuous
functions. Michigan Math. J. 13 1966 313--320. (Reviewer: D. C. Rung)
30.62
Kaczynski, T. J. Boundary functions for function defined
in a disk. J. Math. Mech. 14 1965 589--612. (Reviewer: C. Tanaka)
30.62
For abstracts of these math papers, see http://www.rpi.edu/~bulloj/tjk/tjk.html
A letter to the editor of Saturday Review was published in 1970.
Student and faculty evaluations of Dr. Kaczynski while employed at UC Berkeley
books by victims of unabombs:
(THIS SECTION IS MOST
INCOMPLETE. PLEASE SEND FURTHER INFO to
bookobscurity@berkeleynetcentral.com.
some 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.
1939, the lost world of the Fair New York : Free
Press, c1995.
"How Hard is Chess?" a bland, watered down, reassuring essay, as
is appropriate for the journal Time, (May 19, 1997,
p72.) on distinction between humans and computers. Gelernter is
originator of a parallel processing scheme called "LINDA", named
after a person with the same last name as the one giving her name
to "ADA". Gelernter wears a leather glove to cover the disfigurement
from a letter bomb. The author note accompanying the Time
article says: "David Gelernter is professor of computer science
at Yale and author of Drawing Life; Good, Evil, and Mailbombs
in Modern America, to be published in September by the Free
Press." Title as published: Drawing Life: Surviving the
Unabomber. The Free Press, division of Simon and Schuster.
1997. Gelernter despises all the attention placed on the Unabomber,
(presumably including this webpage) and repudiates the label "victim".
James McConnell, psyche prof (now deceased from natural causes), writer of Sci Fi, [need titles] mentioned in intro to Terminal Man by Michael Crichton.
BOOKS found in a cabin in Montana:
based on what has appeared
in the papers so far (Apr 17, 1996); one account says there were
232 books. (or 239? Earlier accounts I heard said "wall to wall
books", "60 books","100 books".)
Anyone know if the rest of the book list is publically available?
---------------------------- Tue, 16 Apr 1996 03:59:53 alt.fan.unabomber Thread 52 of 56 Lines 10 legal relevance of 2 books found among 239 in cabin wu7282@aol.com Wu7282 at America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) 1 book was ICE BROTHERS, a novel by Sloan Wilson. A gutted copy of that book was used to deliver the bomb to the 1980 victim, Percy Wood. Also found was VIOLENCE IN AMERICA, a book commissioned by a government task force in the 1960's that was cited by the manifesto. It is a collection of articles. (Pretty academic and dry.) It may be hard to find in book stores now, but it's in most public libraries. The legal relevance of the discovery of these two books is unclear. But note there were only 6 or so books cited in the manifesto. ----------------------------
Sloan Wilson also authored The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. If the Unabomber and the cabin dweller are the same, then he bought TWO copies of Ice Brothers. You can't bomb your book and have it too.
---------------------------- Tue, 16 Apr 1996 07:07:22 alt.fan.unabomber Thread 56 of 56 Lines 15 The Bottom Line On Prof. Ted harryangel@aol.com HarryAngel at America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Greetings, mates: We've heard the Unabomber suspect likened to Cain of Genesis in Time magazine's "milking it for all it's worth" signature. Some may liken Professor Ted to Joseph Conrad's insane lunatic, Kurtz, or even Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, Akasha . . . or even as some tragic hero...... ---------------------------
( Genesis; Conrad, Heart of Darkness)
other bombers in literature:
Frank Harris, The Bomb, 1908. About the Chicago
Haymarket explosion.
Anatole France,
Penquin Island
Joseph Conrad,
The Secret Agent ; unread by this reviewer
G. Bernard Shaw,
Major Barbara, with First Aid to Critics
Speculation was that Eugene O'Neill had something to do with the
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". Check out
www.sjmercury.com/unabomb.htm for this and other literary
theories.
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)
(This brings
to mind the old Russian joke about their form of government:
"Absolute despotism, moderated by assassination.") (I hope I am
not depressing anyone with this humour noir; I am in the
middle of reading a biography of André Breton. Also, I
don't think we really want to try that form of government here, in
spite of an occassional advocate of such on talk radio.)
compare this with the attempted Hitler assassination with bomb; an insider job; it exploded, but missed primary target; perpetrators meat-hooked.
Live Wild or Die environmental activist info sheet; supposed source of a "hit list" they speculate the unabomber may have seen. (I believe the use of the phrase "hit list" was intended metaphorically. However, it is the case that a name on the list was murdered. (Or was it someone who worked for a listed company? I have to check this.) (If someone knows where this is on the net, please inform factchecker@berkeleynetcentral.com.))
I wonder if the Unabomber or Dr. Kaczynski or the people they interacted with have ever read Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr. They say that Kaczynski and/or the Unabomber read a lot of sci fi. Canticle for Liebowitz describes a post-nuclear-war world where technology has been lost except for some recovered fragments; the threat of recovering that knowledge to the religious culture of the time, in light of bitter historical memory, provides the conflict for the story.
Problem with the news. They said a hit list of 25 math professors at Berkeley was found in the cabin, to appropriate media milking in the tv and papers and The Daily Californian (campus paper). Then the next day (April 17 or so) it was stated (on the local tv news here in the SF Bay Area) that they got it backwards, the list was actually complied by the FBI!!!! (of profs they wanted to interview). Why can't they get it together? Are they going to mess up their case, can't keep the evidence straight, taint the jury pool with prejudice? Have they been hanging around the leri-l list too much? Meanwhile, the misinformation remains on the net and the retraction doesn't (or if it does, tell me where and I will change this). tvwatcher@berkeleynetcentral.com.
coming SOON; unabom instant trash-history flash-book. Corporate journalism produces something to buy to fill the demand. Out by the end of the week.
In addition, these efforts:
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Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:29:47 alt.fan.unabomber Thread 3 of 73
Lines 6 Searching for David Kaczynski's Columbia classmates
miket@nyc.pipeline.com Michael Taylor at The Pipeline
Searching for any Columbia alum who remembers David Kaczynski from his
three-year stint as an English Major there and would be willing to be
interviewed for a book about the Unabomber case that is being prepared by a
major news organization.
Please e-mail replies ASAP.
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Sun, 21 Apr 1996 04:40:08 alt.fan.unabomber Thread 76 of 82
Lines 8 Publish Your Views In "Letters to the Unabomber" Book
ross@wizard.net Ross Getman at Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470
Please submit your views to be included in a book titled "Letters
to the Unabomber." All points of view will be represented. Recommended
length is 100-300 words, but all lengths considered. You should list
your name and city so credit can be given, unless you prefer to be
listed as "Anonymous." All letters should begin "Dear Unabomber."
Thank you.
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I saw on the net where technical descriptions of the bombs are published in magazines, and although I strive for completeness and could provide references, excuse me, I choose NOT to pass on this info. Such info is perfectly legal. To be perfectly clear, I CHOOSE not to distribute it. Get what I'm saying?
other things about the case:
UNABOM: The University/Airline
Bomber, The Police Chief, pp 36-37 (October 1991).
James C. Ronay, Chief Explosives Unit, FBI Laboratory, and Richard
A. Strobel, Chief, ATF Laboratory.
John Douglas, FBI profiler, co-authoring book due by end of April 96
Mad Genius: The Odyssey, Pursuit, and Capture of the Unabomber Suspect, Nancy Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Lance Morrow, Jill Smolowe, and David Van Biema with the Editorial Staff of Time Magazine. Time Warner-TurnerBS. 1996. includes Industrial Society and Its Future., the Unabomber manifesto.
Saw on the news, the artist who did the Unabomber police sketch wants royalties from t-shirt manufacturers, to donate to the Polly Klass Foundation.
Was this a "work for hire" paid for by the government?
Jolly Roger Press (one couple in Berkeley) had a resurgence of orders after Dr. Kaczynski's arrest. Their bound paperback edition of "Industrial Society and its Future" by FC retails for $10. First edition of 5000 copies cost a couple of grand and 8 days to produce. Near as I can gather they sold 10000 and just reprinted another run of 10000 (according to the tv news). I saw someone on the net coming out with a $2 edition (at cost). Why not just print it out from the net? It's only 35,000 words. Although FC stated it may be copied freely, Jolly Roger Press offers Kaczynski royalties, if he will admit he wrote it. I guess I should bug them. Do they still stand by that? I see a stack of these remainders at Moe's for $5, Sep 1999.
California Governor Pete Wilson (Republican) has been very active in trying to bring this year's trial of the century to his state. Think of the media revenue and California Death Trip politicising.
FLASH! June 20, 1996, Kaczynski, murder suspect, is back in California.
California no longer uses the gas chamber, in compliance with the court's ruling of the "cruel", thus unconstitutional, nature of the gas chamber. Governor Wilson opposes giving up the gas chamber. Perhaps they will get meathooks. (opps, ... reading too much André Breton again ...)
FLASH! Oct 20 1996, I see in the news that the Supreme Court has overruled lower court. The gas chamber is not cruel and unusual after all. Does that mean the Court is?
There is a Mensa chapter at San Quentin state prison. However, Kaczinski is/was in Sacremento. Or is in Florence, Colorado.
a chapter on Kaczynski in Strange Brains and Genius : The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen , Clifford Pickover. 1998. some notes
Kaczinski's psychiatric report on Theodore Kaczynski, Prepared by Sally C. Johnson, a Bureau of Prisons doctor, at www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/tedpsych1.shtml unsealed Sep 11, 1999.
---------------------------- Tue, 16 Apr 1996 22:17:43 alt.fan.unabomber Thread 37 of 39 Lines 6 NaCl anton@tezcat.com Andrzej Borowiec at Iguana USA TODAY reported on 04.16 that FBI found in Kaczynski's cabin, among others, 'a bottle of powder labeled "NaCl," sodium chlorate, a component used in explosives.' Now, when they say 'explosives', do they mean stuff like spam and beans? Andrzej Borowiec ---------------------------
Warning; your well-informed legislators may soon illegalize NaCl.