The 7th Derrida Today Conference Yeti Kang 1 Encounter to Come: two modes of deconstruction in “Faith and Knowledge” The importance of “Faith and Knowledge” (1994-96, hereafter FK) in Jacques Derrida’s corpus cannot be overstated. First presented at a conference on the island of Capri in February 1994 and later published in a revised and expanded edition in 1996, “Faith and Knowledge” is Derrida’s most explicit treatment of the question of religion and technology, as well as a guide to the major issues such as messianicity, responsibility, salvation, and autoimmunity that Derrida addressed in his writings from the late 1980s to the 1990s. However, the difficulty of this essay is directly proportional to its importance, not only because of its dense arguments and highly synthetic structure, but also because Derrida deliberately adopts a scattered, telegraphic, even cryptic writing style. In Miracle and Machine (2012, hereafter MM) -- a meticulous and substantial “reader’s guide” to “Faith and Knowledge” -- Michael Naas decrypts Derrida’s writing by highlighting “three principal theses” that run beneath the entire essay. These three theses deal with the fundamental duplicity of religion by demonstrating1) the two sources of religion: the sacred [heilig] and the act of faith; 2) the autoimmune relationship between religion qua the sacred, the first source, and science; 3) the complicity between religion and tele-technoscience revealed by the act of faith, the second source. These three theses lead to Derrida’s criticism of the alliance of religion and science that imposes a “globalatinization” [mondialatinisation], namely a global Christian hegemony. However, besides the three theses, there is actually another thesis, a “pedagogical or rhetorical” one (FK, 55), which, according to Naas, aims to “reinscribe and displace” the historical aporia between revealability [Offenbarkeit] and revelation [Offenbarung] (MM, 159). Near the end of the first part of the essay, Derrida mentions two “historical” names, the