Abstract

By looking at two of Derrida’s essays, ‘Faith and Knowledge” and “Above All, No Journalists!” this paper tries to expound Derrida’s way of seeing religion and the way he blends it with the media. For him, both have the phenomenon of “mediatization” because the attempt of both is to simulate a “live” transmission of an event or the thing itself that makes us believe the representation of an absent object in front of our eyes. Not only is such a transitory function not helpful in qualifying the mediatory role of religion and media, it can also bring closure to the meaning of God or deviate the broadcasting of the event. In other words, this function will secure a perpetual metaphysical foundation. The paper continues by explaining that deconstruction redefines the politics of religion, and replaces it with the politics of deconstruction that offers a “democracy to come” in media broadcast of an event or the religious representation of God, and it faces them both with “otherness” from within them.