with Prof. Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths University of London) The workshop session will undertake three activities, first students will be expected to comment on 2 or 3 provided articles and chapters as below. Second students will be guided to discussing some of the background texts and recent material on the topic. Third and finally students will be invited to bring to the workshop some of their own relevant research material with a view to reflecting on the value of the conceptual vocabulary already presented (Foucault, Bourdieu, McRobbie, Mankse, Born, Scharff). Please sign up in advance to participate: Workshop reading A. McRobbie (2015) Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries, Polity Press Cambridge, see chapters 2, 3, and 4. C. Scharff  (2015) The Psychic Life of Neoliberalism: Mapping the Contours of Entrepreneurial Subjectivity, in: Theory Culture and Society. G. Born (2010) The Social and the Aesthetic: For a Post-Bourdieuian Theory of Cultural Production, in: Cultural Sociology , vol. 4 No 2. E. Dowling (2007) Producing the Dining Experience: Measure, Subjectivity and the Affective Worker, in: ephemera. Theory & Politics in Organization, vol. 7 (1): 117-132. Background reading Mankse A (2016) Kapitalistische Geister in der Kuktur-und Kreativwirtschaft Transcript Verlag Bourdieu P (1993) The Field of Cultural Production , Blackwells Oxford. Foucault M (2008) The Birth of Biopolitics:Lectures at the College de France, Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke.  Boltanksi L and Chiapello E (2005) The New Spirit of Capitalism, Verso London