Dangerous Minds pal Adam Parfrey’s new publication of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, now titled Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, was written up in the Peninsula Daily News, a media outlet servicing the area of Port Townsend, WA—where Adam lives—this morning:

The Unabomber—who argued that technology is at fault for society’s current problems and pockmarked his argument with bombings for nearly two decades—has published a book through a small Port Townsend publisher.

But his publisher is short of the accolades book publishers usually place on their authors.

“He is a murderer, and he is a sociopath,” said Adam Parfrey, who published Technological Slavery by the now-imprisoned Theodore J. Kaczynski.

But Parfrey said in an interview Monday that Kaczynski “is also provocative and intelligent.

“He is a genius and a very good writer who can add to the discussion about technology,” said Parfrey.

Kaczynski, 68, sent 16 package bombs between 1978 and 1995 which exploded, killing three people and injuring 23.

He blackmailed The New York Times and The Washington Post into publishing his manifesto in 1995, saying that he would continue his bombings unless the papers ran the document.

After publication, Kaczynski’s brother recognized the writing style and made the identification that led to an arrest in a Montana cabin in 1996.

Technological Slavery is a reworked version of the original manifesto that includes Kaczynski’s other writings that have been edited only slightly, according to Parfrey.

Prior to publication Kaczynski, Parfrey and a University of Michigan professor corresponded frequently, and the author—serving a life sentence in a federal maximum-security prison in Colorado—provided strict instructions to his publisher.

“He had some very strong ideas about how he wanted the book to look,” Parfrey said.

“He did not want to have any typos, which were present in the last edition of the book.”

Below, a segment from ABC’s Nightline, when Ted Kaczynski was taken into custody, 1996:
 

 
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