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Authors:Authors:

Arthur Arruda L. Ferreira (Arthur Arruda L. Ferreira (arleal@superig.com.brarleal@superig.com.br))

Felipe da Silva HautequesttFelipe da Silva Hautequestt

Fernando Mello MachadoFernando Mello Machado

Mayo de 2009Mayo de 2009

GOVERNAMENTAL PRACTICES AND RADICAL BEHAVIORISM: FROM WALDEN II TO LOS HORCONES

M. FoucaultM. Foucault 1926 - 1984

Courses in Collège de France:

Security, Territory and Population (1977-1978)

The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979)

Gubernamentality is “the assemblage formed by

institutions, procedures, analysis, reflections,

calculations and tactics that allow a specific and

complex form of power that has by target the

population” (FOUCAULT, 2006: 136).

GOVERN as conduct

others conduct.

2 GREAT PHASES IN THE HISTORY OF GOVERNAMENTALITY:

2) Liberal Governamentality: puts the population domain under new concerns

of the government that now needs to discover ways of administrating it

respecting its natural and free functioning codes .

It arises in 18th century.

1) State of Police : Based on the Reason of State, were defined by its strong

necessity to register and correct the actions of the individuals .

It arises in 16th and 17th centuries.

According Rose, history of psy knowledge is linked to the govern history in a double way:

1) considering the inscription techniques that allowed

subjectivities to be caught by govern devices;

2) through the constitution of multiple politics that intend to conduct the individual conduct not only through discipline, but mainly by considering the free activities of the people that are

governed.

Walden TwoWalden Two 1948

In Walden II the governor figure would be suppressed and in its place planners

and the managers would appear.

The planners are responsible for watching and

analyzing the community functioning and elect

the managers according to its competences .

The role of the manager is to care for some

specific areas through the selective

management of reinforcement: education,

culture, work and so on.

There is a duplication between the political

sovereign plan and the governamentality psy

(the other and self control) .

Los HorconesLos Horcones 1973

3 great political phases:

Managers and Planners Sistem;

Democracy;

Personocracy.

Present in the Northern part of Mexico, at

Hermosillo, Los Horcones currently has

eighteen residents (three of them invited). This

community received visits and compliments

from Skinner himself.

1) In the beginning, in 1973, a govern system was proposed working with planners and managers. Each year the managers selected two members as planners applicants. In that way, every 18 months one of these applicants would substitute one of the planners. So there would always be a planner with government expertise.

2) In 1977, democracy was implemented, but the results were not those expected. The members concluded that: a) not always the majority make the right decision; b) the minority never agrees with the majority decisions, c) an agreement between the members is possible, if the individuals are educated to make decisions together, considering some values.

3) Personocracy, the current government form, is a kind of an opened government, where all members can participate, aiming to create new rules and codes of conduct to be experimented in the time that it would be necessary. Then the old planners and managers disappear; organizers and coordinators would then emerge and would become responsible for the management of specific areas.

Bibliographical ReferencesBibliographical ReferencesFOUCAULT, Michel. História de la Sexualidade II. Rio de Janeiro: Graal, 1984_______. Seguridad, territorio, población. Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura

Económica, 2006._______. Nacimiento de la biopolítica. Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura

Económica, 2007.LOS HORCONES. Personocracia: una forma de gobierno basada en la ciencia

del analisis de la conducta. Revista Latino-americana de Psicologia, Bogotá, 1, v. 22, p. 111-130, 1990.

_______. Site de la comunidad (http://loshorcones.org/) ROSE, Nikolas. Inventing our selves. Cambridge, Cambridge University Pres,

1998SKINNER, B.F. Walden II: uma sociedade do futuro. 2ª ed. São Paulo, EPU,

1978.