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I don't know enough to comment on Jobs and I came to the computer thing so late, that it doesn't have the romance for me that is has for so many others. I am also a reductionist when it comes to business folk. But the concept of the bourgeois hero does interest me and Jobs would seem to fit that, just as Princess Diana represented the bourgeois suffering. In any case a great blog and so informative and full of that "insider" flavour comradely Gary On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Last night I attended a press screening for Alex Gibney’s documentary > “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine” that opens in theaters and on VOD on > Friday, September 4th. The film is a brilliant analysis of both the man and > the company he built. Since Gibney’s last documentary was on Scientology, > it was natural to wonder whether he decided to take on another cult. When > Jobs died, Gibney was struck by the mass grief that poured out for the CEO > after the fashion of Princess Di. What explained such devotion? Since > Gibney owned and treasured his IPhone, this was a question that provoked > him into making this film. As someone who likes but does not exactly love > his Macbook, and who spent 44 years working as a systems analyst and a > programmer, the question of Apple’s place in the American economy and > society is also of great interest to me. > > full: http://louisproyect.org/2015/08/28/steve-jobs/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
