27 January 2015, 18:30 (Doors Open: 18:00)
Embassy of Canada, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin (Please present a valid photo-ID at the door and allow sufficient time for Embassy security.)
In English; free admission. Please register here. (Deadline: 26. January 2015, 12:00)

Canadian mathematician and publicist David Orrell will deliver this year’s Marshall McLuhan Lecture entitled Money is the Message on 27 January 2015 at the Embassy of Canada.
In works like Apollo’s Arrow (2007) he deals with the boundaries of mathematic patterns which are supposed to ensure the predictability of events of all kinds. His most recent publication Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order focuses on the strained relationship between science and aesthetics.

In his talk, Orrell will pick up on McLuhan’s idea that money is a medium for social interaction. The lecture looks at the origins of money; explores its often-paradoxical properties; asks how money went missing from mainstream economics; shows why modern fiat currencies are transmedia; peers into the future of currencies; and – in the spirit of McLuhan – draws on everything from ancient philosophy, to modern scientific theories such as complexity, to decode money’s mysterious but enchanting message.

The Marshall McLuhan lecture is realised in cooperation with the Marshall McLuhan Salon at the Embassy of Canada, which holds one of the most significant collections of audio-visual material by and about the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, as well as a large number of his publications.