In this book, Rodrigo Cordero invites us to reconsider the centrality that concepts have both in the understanding and in the production of social life. Through readings by Adorno, Arendt, Koselleck and Luhmann, as well as a series of scenes and fragments of contemporary Chilean society, it proposes to explore various ways in which concepts operate in specific social and historical processes, as archives of meanings and experiences. , assemblages of practices, fields of struggle and agents of political imagination. Instead of using the concepts as sources of certainty and scientific coherence, the book proposes using them as sites for exploring the uncertainties and contradictions of the social.