B.F. Skinners Walden Two FLNWO #17

Published: July 29, 2014, 11:39 a.m.

b'This month on the Film, Literature and New World Order podcast, James explores B.F. Skinner\\u2019s 1948 utopian novel, \\u201cWalden Two.\\u201d We discuss Skinner\\u2019s 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 \\u201cscience\\u201d and find it to be ethically and intellectually bankrupt.'