The world as agency — and why it is not the cultural frame

What this note covers

1. What the syllabus packs into the word 'world'
2. The distinction the syllabus insists on: world is an agency, culture is a frame
3. Five kinds of world content you can actually name
4. How the world enters the artwork: representation, not illustration
5. Worlds change, and the same subject shifts with them
6. Worked contrast: reading one work as world-relation, then culturally
7. How this is examined, and what separates a top-band answer

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