In the spirit of understanding “social and professional imaginaries,” here’s a link to a short piece I did on In These Times, “Why, Really, Do We Love Steve Jobs?” The punchline is that neither Benjamin Franklin nor Thomas Edison (two other mythic capitalist figures) would have recommended dropping out of college, taking LSD, and backpacking […]
Thomas Streeter
University of Vermont Department of Sociology
thomas.streeter@uvm.edu