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This paper’s purpose is to interpretate John Cage’s lecture <Lecture on Nothing> based on Deconstructivism, claimed by Jacques Derrida. Derrida’s Deconstructivism can be organized into 4 concepts, dissemination, differance, trace, and parergon. After study, in Cage’s lecture, first, dissemination is inherent in expanding the meaning as getting out of pre-existing content and formality’s structure. Second, differance’s way, which is deferred and supplemented by each reader’s experience, is inherent in empty space and process of collision by text’s signifie and the element of time and space. Third, ‘nothing’s meaning and form’s repeating process connote the concept of ‘trace’ that can’t define its origin. Fourth, the concept called parergon, which offsets the border of the form called structure and increases meaning, is appearing in this lecture. This paper is significant since it presents potentiality of new communication method that was based on text method by considering Deconstructivism expression methods, which was not attempted yet, through Cage’s lecture.

Deconstructivism, Jacques Derrida, John Cage, Lecture on Nothing, text-based media