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

Great description of the hippy vision: Utopianism and BF Skinner - "B. F. Skinner - A World of Difference: Skinner and the Good Life (1979)"https://t.co/JlIoH5LLeX Begins around 10:10 mins re "getting away from the world, and designing "& Twin Oaks' community in rural Virginia

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 12, 2017

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

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

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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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Two#cite_note-25

Learned about Los Horcones' community ...

• 1967 Twin Oaks Community (website) is started in Louisa County, Virginia.
• 1971 Los Horcones (website) is started in Hermosillo, Mexico.

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

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

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Kat Kinkade

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!


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. 


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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

The basics of operant conditioning pic.twitter.com/GEBfPWT1rz

— B. F. Skinner (@Operant_God) May 31, 2016

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

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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