What we lose when we lose the culture industries

More thoughts on the Oracle Threat

Keeping to a seasonally appropriate spookiness, this edition of the newsletter will be a (unusually non-musical) follow-up to our episode on Paramount’s sale to Skydance Media. There, we we discussed how the Larry-Ellison-backed company swallowed up its much larger partner, and tried to get to the bottom of what the implications of this type of tech-bas…