From what I've overheard of critical theory, this is the argument between historical contingency (historicism) and social construction (constructionism). https

From what I've overheard of critical theory, this is the argument between historical contingency (historicism) and social construction (constructionism). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916599.2019.1653351 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916599.2019.1... : Historicism, dominating nineteenth-century Western thought and overseeing the professionalization of historical studies, advocated an understanding of the present condition of the human world as developing out of past conditions. Constructionism, dominating the second half of the twentieth century, understood the present condition as the recent invention of certain ‘historical’ environments, without prior existence. People used to have letters to the editor and billboards. Even in computers there were login messages, user signatures, and presumably notes taped to shared terminals.