Kaczynski, Ellul, and the Future of Anti-Tech Radicalism with Sean Fleming
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Shawn fleming is a research fellow in political theory at cambridge. He has recently published an article called the una bomme and the origins of antitec radicalism, which uses newly discovered archival material to uncover the ideas that inspired ted kazinski. Shawn: I had never read the uni bomber manifestoo. And what i was struck by was that the argument wasn't at all conspiratorial. The whole logic of the argument is evolutionary. Kinsky understands human beings and technology and corporations and states and everything in between as a product of an evolutionary cess. It's like he thinks we're sleep walking into a kind of technological nightmare.
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