Everything in the social world is contingent. All the institutions we’re part of, the norms we follow and the practices we adopt could all be different because they were made by human beings. They only stay the same because people continue to act as they do. If that stopped, everything would change. (https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/luke-billingham/it-could-be-otherwise-contingency-and-social-transformation)
The past is narrated and the future is not fixed – Spot-on! On that note, also worth referring to Adorno’s Society and work in general (“Everything under the sun is socially-mediated”), Benjamin’s Thesis on the Concept of History, and Foucault’s The Order of Things and work in general.
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