Marilyn Waring is a former New Zealand Parliament member, elected in 1975 when she was 22, who has since become a vocal critic of the standard cost-benefit analysis of labor and productivity. Framed by a lecture that Waring is giving to a Montreal audience, Canadian documentarian Terre Nash’s Who’s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies […]
Daily Archives: June 14, 2009
I have read Thomas Carlyle’s translation of Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister—not that this prepared me much for Falsche Bewegung, which Wim Wenders directed from Peter Handkë’s adaptation, which updates part of the long work to the present, and takes as its starting point, from which young Wilhelm (Rüdiger Vogler) departs on his journey of […]