The Wire #499 Sept. 2025 essays and a reckoning for the

and a reckoning for the platformed web and its monolithic tech giants is beginning to feel imminent―but how will it all unfold

the artists discover alternate perspectives on identity construction

These designs draw out their readers’ imaginations

The Bulgarian author’s exercise in libretto writing takes the shape of a “giant poem” patterned after a hyper-saturated present where “information is everything/And everything is information…isn’t it

The Wire #499 Sept. 2025 essays and a reckoning for theThe Wire is an independent music magazine covering a wide range of global alternative, underground and experimental music. It celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronic music, hiphop, new jazz, improvised music, modern composition, traditional musics and more. Passionate, intelligent and