Contingency

In Logic, contingency means the Exclusion of both necessity and impossibility.

The term contingency determines a datum in reference to the possible alternatives: it describes the situation in which what is current (i.e., not impossible) could also be different (i.e., not necessary). Therefore, contingency describes the possibility that a datum is different than it is.

A datum is contingent when it is observed as a selection from an area of background Possibilities: the datum derives from a selection that determines its non-being as the being of other possibilities.

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The paper reflects on the presuppositions and consequences of the concept of performativity (understood as the involvement of the Observer in the objects and projects he/she describes).