Saturday, November 11, 2017

Pongo: Utopian Communities, Hippy Communes, BF Skinner's Walden Two and Twin Oaks (began in 1967), Virginia as example, Polyamory?, Harbin Hot Springs (began in 1972), The idea of community, or hippy communities, has long fascinated and drawn me - from Alpha Farm (Oregon), to Harbin Hot Springs (about which I wrote a long ethnographic book), to Twin Oaks, to how Harbin and hippy communities will emerge and are emerging online ... (and even Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, in the 1970s as community especially) ... "Bookbinding" Telluride, CO, in Google Streetview in the future?, B.F. Skinner, Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning and Verbal Behavior


Sunday, November 12, 2017

The idea of community, or hippy communities, has long fascinated and drawn me - from Alpha Farm (Oregon), to Harbin Hot Springs (about which I wrote a long ethnographic book), to Twin Oaks, to how Harbin and hippy communities will emerge and are emerging online ... (and even Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, in the 1970s as community especially) ...

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Walden Two (1948) by BF Skinner

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1725530W/Walden_Two

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You can also probably find it for free by searching on:

"Walden Two (1948) by BF Skinner free online"

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Great description of the hippy vision: Utopianism and BF Skinner - "B. F. Skinner - A World of Difference: Skinner and the Good Life (1979)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_EJ20tbL-s … Begins around 10:10 mins re "getting away from the world, and designing " & Twin Oaks' community in rural Virginia


https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/929787465006686208

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Walden Two
http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/eng/Walden_Two

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Living Walden Two

B. F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities
Hilke Kuhlmann
Publication Year: 2005
In Walden Two, behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner describes one of the most controversial fictional utopias of the twentieth century. During the 1960s and 70s, this novel went on to inspire approximately three dozen actual communities, which are entertainingly examined in Hilke Kuhlmann's Living Walden Two._x000B_In the novel, behavioral engineers use positive reinforcement in organizing and "gently guiding" all aspects of society, leaving the rest of the citizens "free" to lead happy and carefree lives. Among the real-world communities, a recurrent problem in moving past the planning stages was the nearly ubiquitous desire among members to be gentle guides, coupled with strong resistance to being guided. _x000B_In an insightful and often hilarious narrative, Hilke Kuhlmann explores the dynamics of the communities, with an in-depth examination of the two surviving Skinnerian communities: Comunidad Los Horcones in Mexico, and Twin Oaks in Virginia. Drawing on extensive interviews with the founders and key players in the Walden Two communities, Kuhlmann redefines the criteria for their success by focusing on the tension between utopian blueprints for a new society and communal experiments' actual effects on individual lives. _x000B_ show less
Published by: University of Illinois Press

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/18610


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B. F. SKINNER'S OTHER POSITIVISTIC BOOK WALDEN TWO.pdf

https://www.scribd.com/document/266461385/B-F-SKINNER-S-OTHER-POSITIVISTIC-BOOK-WALDEN-TWO-pdf

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Walden Two
B.F. Skinner
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/walden2/

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Walden Two

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Two#cite_note-25

Learned about Los Horcones' community ...



Also learned further of
Kat Kincade ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kat_Kinkade
and her ...

Books[edit]

  • A Walden Two Experiment; The First Five Years of Twin Oaks Community William Morrow & Co (February 1974) ISBN 0-688-05020-4
  • Is It Utopia Yet?: An Insider's View of Twin Oaks Community in Its Twenty-Sixth Year Twin Oaks Publishing; 2nd edition (August 1994) ISBN 0-9640445-0-1

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Kathleen Kinkade, Founder of Utopian Commune, Is Dead at 77

By WILLIAM GRIMES

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/us/27kinkade.html

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Kat Kinkade

Kat Kinkade was one of the seven founders of Twin Oaks Community as well as a founder of East Wind and Acorn Communities.
https://www.ic.org/wiki/kat-kinkade/

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Twin Oaks Community, Virginia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Oaks_Community,_Virginia


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I didn't touch on "Walden Two" in my book "Naked Harbin Ethnography," although both come out of the 1960s and 1970s as parallel streams ...

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook


Was surprised that Walden Two was published in 1948 ... and draws for inspiration on utopian communities in the US from the first half of the 1800s, and in particular Thoreau's Walden (1854).


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World Univ & Sch's open monthly business meeting in November 2017

Thanks for replying, Scott.  I happen to be in Telluride, CO, just finished with an historical bookbinding workshop (lots of early tablets and papyrus models!) which has been a lot of fun.  I think I'm retired now, and I'm sure you'll meet my successor, Maria Cunningham, next time you visit campus and special collections.  She's doing great things for the students and the room has been totally changed to look like a real special collections area!

In any case, I am having fun with more book topics and travel and a lot of whatnots!

Cheers, and good luck.
Gay

Friday, November 10, 2017

 Hi Gay, 
(Reed College librarian, Reedie '69, and former head of special collections), 
https://events.reed.edu/event/reception_honoring_gay_walker#.WgiGsa2ZNE4
http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/march2015/empire_of_the_griffin.html

 That sounds like fun - and Telluride is beautiful. 


You'll find my Harbin Hot Springs' emerging ethnographic field site here in Google Streetview - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook - at top left. I'd like to publish from a realistic virtual world in a new way, but the WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress (planned in all 7,099 living languages with machine translation for academic publishing) - hasn't developed this further yet. 

Looking forward to meeting Maria at some point. See you around Reed sometime - now that you're retired and "free"? 

Cheers, and happy bookbinding and travels, 
Scott


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B.F. Skinner, Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning and Verbal Behavior

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B.F. Skinner
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
WRITTEN BY: The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica
See Article History
Alternative Title: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
https://www.britannica.com/biography/B-F-Skinner

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Operant Conditioning

 Pinned Tweet
 31 May 2016
The basics of operant conditioning



https://twitter.com/Operant_God/status/737622763918229504

https://twitter.com/operant_god

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BF Skinner Foundation - Pigeon Ping Pong Clip

bfskinnerfoundation 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGazyH6fQQ4

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B. F. Skinner - Focus on Verbal Behavior (1988)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iz6uOkk_Kk

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B. F. Skinner Quotes

http://www.azquotes.com/author/13687-B_F_Skinner

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Behaviorism

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism/

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Skinner is fascinating ... for example, see this related blog post from yesterday, November 11, 2017 ...

Jack pine: BF Skinner and Operant Conditioning in a realistic virtual earth for experimentation?, A realistic virtual earth / HARBIN at cell/atom levels for LONGEVITY studies, re 1) eg putting virtual young mice blood into virtual old mice, and similarly with humans, And 2) calorie restriction - Harvard, Lots of Behaviorism / BF Skinner-informed operant conditioning films (such significant theory at Harvard) to digitize into 3D interactive virtual earth @HarbinBook re CODING for how this works EXPERIMENTALLY http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Experimentation … - and scientifically for further STEM research, Utopianism and BF Skinner - "B. F. Skinner - A World of Difference: Skinner and the Good Life (1979)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_EJ20tbL-s … begins at 10:10 mins re "getting away from the world, and designing a world of your own," HIPPIES, and WALDEN II & Twin Oaks community in rural Virginia


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/jack-pine-bf-skinner-and-operant.html


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Three BF Skinner (Harvard) Blog Writings with much relevance for learning at World Univ & Sch:
Jack pine: BF Skinner and Operant Conditioning in a realistic virtual earth for experimentation?,...
- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/jack-pine-bf-skinner-and-operant.html …
- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/pongo-utopian-communities-hippy.html …
- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/pinus-merkusii-bf-skinner-and-self-re.html … ~




https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/929905152986714112






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https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pongo_pygmaeus
(Pongo pygmaeus is the Bornean orangutan)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornean_orangutan
Pongo pygmaeus





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapanuli_orangutan
Pongo tapanuliensis





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatran_orangutan
Pongo abelii



       Bornean         Sumatran          Tapanuli orangs

(Sumatran orangutan is the third species)


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