This month on the Film, Literature and New World Order podcast, James explores B.F. Skinner’s 1948 utopian novel, “Walden Two.” We discuss Skinner’s ideas of behavioural engineering, how they are employed in the novel, and why this raises the ire of the general reading public. We also interrogate the roots of behavioural “science” and find it to be ethically and intellectually bankrupt.

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SHOW NOTES:

1964 interview with B.F. Skinner about Walden Two

MSNBC Host: Your Kids Belong to the Collective

B.F. Skinner’s Shaping Experiment (“Skinner’s Box”)

“I was not a lab rat” by Deborah Skinner Buzan

B. F. Skinner on education

The Case Against B.F. Skinner

Next month: They Live