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The Best of 2022: Part II - by Jared Young - Tolstoyan

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Judgment, hierarchy, and hard decisions as we count down to the number one thing of the year.

—director Steven Soderbergh’s annual Seen, Read list. It’s laid out chronologically, there are no rankings, it’s simply a list of his inputs throughout the year, which gives you a clear picture of his polymathic tastes and unconscious biases. It’s formatted nicely, too: different textual treatments for films, books, television shows. But it’s a quantitative accounting, an accumulation—there is no subjectivity, no assessment of a value, just the acknowledgment that these particular artefacts existed in this particular year. I prefer to be more judgmental—to make difficult decisions, to…

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