The concept of identity, much discussed in the past, seems today to have lost some of its explosiveness. The reasons for this can most likely be found in the fact that mediality has now taken the place of anthropocentricism and subject-centrism. For this reason, here, for the first time, a concept of identity is proposed and developed which no longer follows the expectation of continuity, but rather emphasizes the evental quality of identity, and which for this reason is equally compatible with philosophy and the social sciences alike.
