'Conversations about concepts' is a podcast exploring our experiences and encounters with a range of contemporary concepts. We try to listen in to the constantly shifting whisperings of language in order to get a sense of how concepts are actually being used in our everyday lives. This is not about defining things or teaching the truth or showing how something should be understood, rather it's about assuming that we don't yet know what we mean when we speak and that the first task is to open our ears to the world around us.
Episode 1
In the first of our podcasts we explore one of the most widespread concepts within both psychoanalysis and contemporary politics, anxiety. Drawing on our personal experiences as well as our psychoanalytical and political understandings, we try to get a sense of quite how it feels when we use this concept of anxiety, whether in relation to our own lives or to society as a whole.
Episode 2
This is a concept that has been around for a long while but which has rapidly transformed its space in our conceptual landscape since the launch of ChatGPT and the entrance of the Large Language Model (LLM). We explore the variety of understandings and feelings we have towards this new kid on the block.
Episode 3
Almost everywhere we go in intellectual debate we find this concept of the body thrown around as though we already understand what we are talking about. Here we try and get some sense of how we use this concept, how we feel about the body and whether we know quite what we mean when we refer to it.