contingent effects

The economic damage studies reviewed by the IPCC all exclude socially contingent effects.

Keller, Matthew C., et al, A warm heart and a clear head: The contingent effects of weather on human mood and cognition, Psychological Science, vol.

The word suggests the society-of-text envisioned by theorists like Shoshana Zuboff and Jay David Bolter, a writing space in which traces of authority persist only as local and contingent effects, the social equivalent of the deconstructed author-function.