ABSTRACT
Jacques Derrida's discussion of the media in terms of teletechnology serves a double purpose: on the one hand it links reflection on media technologies to a broader concept and history of technology generally, while on the other hand it orients deconstruction in this case not so much towards the philosophical or logocentric production of presence as towards the technical and industrial construction of presence today in the form of mediatised 'actuality' or 'liveness'. Teletechnologies have always been there, Derrida insists; they are always there, even when they wrote by hand, even during so-called live conversation. And it is in this insistence that they can begin to identify the non-synonymity of teletechnology with media. It is the produced-ness of events that most regularly attracts. In the first instance, teletechnologies constitute the time and space of events as mediated by news media.
