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01

World Picture 2025 - Direction

November 7-8 2025

University of Amsterdam

Call For Papers

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02

White Hot and Agfacool: Race, Heat, and Colour in The Zone of Interest BY Kirsty Dootson

There is something unsettling about the skin tones in Jonathan Glazer’s 2023 Holocaust film The Zone of Interest. They are too white.

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Embracing the Clutter of Collections: Against the “Nextness” of Streaming and Netflix BY Ryan Engley

Popular streaming media operates according to a logic of next. Perhaps this is stating the obvious. The fact that less than two decades ago this sentence would be a nonsense should strike us.

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When Does the Next Swan Depart? BY Cassandra Guan

Once upon a time in Vienna, the famous dramatic Austrian tenor Leo Slezak broke the spell of the mysterious swan knight during a production of Wagner’s Lohengrin.

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Primitivist Accumulation and Other Inside Jobs BY Alessandra Raengo

Those in the know will tell you that the Black arts are saving art institutions and the art market. At least since the 2000s, and even more since the 2008 recession, Black art has been a motor of art’s financialization, whereby, R.A Judy argues, “ownership of Black expression provides collateral for raising capital.”

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01 World Picture 2025 - Direction 02 White Hot and Agfacool: Race, Heat, and Colour in The Zone of Interest 03 Embracing the Clutter of Collections: Against the “Nextness” of Streaming and Netflix 04 When Does the Next Swan Depart? 05 Primitivist Accumulation and Other Inside Jobs

In this Issue

WP 15: Next | Winter 2025

White Hot and Agfacool: Race, Heat, and Colour in The Zone of Interest

Kirsty Sinclair Dootson

Embracing the Clutter of Collections: Against the “Nextness” of Streaming and Netflix

Ryan Engley

Surrealist Transhumanism: Jean Rostand and Nicole Vedrès’s Aux frontières de l’homme (1952)

Nikolaj Lübecker

Hotel Film and the Erotics of Adjacency

Jules O'Dwyer

When Does the Next Swan Depart?

Cassandra Guan

One Following Others

Brian Price and Clint Enns

Primitivist Accumulation and Other Inside Jobs

Alessandra Raengo

Interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum

Thomas Quist

Nyi Ma Lay

Chiang Wei Liang

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