2022, Number 4
Radical behaviorism, utopias and governmental practices: from walden II to the horcones
Ferreira AAL, Machado FM, Hautequestt F
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Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 1915-1930
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ABSTRACT
This work aims to reflect about the governmental practices present in the Los Horcones, a mexican comunity inspired in the Skinnerian utopia, Walden II. To this purpose, Foucault’s concept of government - considered as a way of “human conduct of conduct”- will be resorted to. Government will be therefore understood as a way of managing each and everyone’s life. This frame allows the understanding of Los Horcones as a radical development of a governmental technique, to a certain level standing out and overlapping the State. In this new kind of management, govern is defined as a technocracy, present in the scientific knowledge of the governed people, and stimulating their own self-regulation. Los Horcones, as in Walden II, put in question the sovereign forms of management, aiming to experiment the better forms of “to conduct conduct”. All this considered, we could see in Los Horcones a change and a experimentation of governmental techniques: first, the ones proposed by Skinner in Walden II; second, the democracy; and, third, the so-called personocracy. Concluding, it will be discussed some specificities of this psy government.REFERENCES