The article, speaking from the double perspective of media history and political aesthetics, discusses the impact of behaviourism and early computer technology on the design of learning environments in the United States after the Second World War. By revisiting B. F. Skinner’s approaches to behavioural techniques and cultural engineering, and by showing how these principles were applied first at US design departments, and later to prison education, it argues that cybernetic and behavioural techniques merged in the common field of design and education. Behavioural design of the 1960s and 1970s furthered the cybernetic dream of total control over the world by addressing the learning environment rather than the individual, and operated within a space of possibility that was governed equally by technology and aesthetics. Behavioural design can therefore be understood as a political technology.

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作为美育的设计：论学习环境的政治与美学

文章从媒体史和政治美学的双重视角出发，探讨了二战后行为主义和早期计算机技术对美国学习环境设计的影响。通过重新审视 BF Skinner 的行为技术和文化工程方法，并展示这些原则如何首先应用于美国设计部门，后来应用于监狱教育，它认为控制论和行为技术在设计和教育的共同领域中融合了。1960 年代和 1970 年代的行为设计通过解决学习环境而不是个人，并在一个由技术和美学同等支配的可能性空间内运作，进一步推动了完全控制世界的控制论梦想。