Contingency as a Creative Force in the Communitarium
In Rorty’s framework, contingency is something to accept and work with—everything is contingent on history, culture, and circumstance. In the Communitarium Project, contingency is treated as a creative force, something that can be harnessed to build more adaptive, evolving communities.
Contingency as Flexibility
The Communitarium sees contingency not as a constraint but as an opportunity for creativity. The recognition of contingency allows the community to be flexible and open to change, enabling it to adapt to new circumstances without losing its core solidarity.
Contingency in the Communitarium | The Communitarium Wiki
Leveraging Contingency for Communal Flourishing
By harnessing contingency, the Communitarium Project fosters an environment where communities can co-create new vocabularies, practices, and norms. This adaptability ensures that the community remains responsive to its members’ evolving needs, creating a durable yet dynamic form of solidarity.
In the next post, we will look at how the Communitarium Project deals with Rorty’s final vocabularies and how it handles conversation stoppers and deflectors.