ABSTRACT

This chapter draws an analogy between Zito's remarks on the concept of media and the manner in which the concept of religion functions. It pursues the notion of the concept of religion's undecidability by looking at how Philosophy of Religion (PoR) names a practice that obscures rather than illuminates the mediatic function of religion. The chapter argues that this function can be rendered noticeable only through a genealogy of "religion", which PoR precludes. It turns to the thought of Francois Laruelle, focusing in particular on its capacity to provide a means of escape from the conceptual architecture on which the mediation of religion depends. The elements are in fact consistent, it is simply that this consistency is in-One, it is in the radical immanence prior to philosophical duality (consistency and non-consistency). Laruelle's escape from division, in the name of the radically immanent One, does not fully take account of its imbrication in the "religious" division between Christianity and Judaism.