Its five categories-Pioneers, Artists, Leaders, Icons, Titans-simply replicate the mediated image of cultural power, where entertainers, politicians, and the wealthy are the movers and shakers of what’s next in culture. ![]() ![]() What does it mean to live when Brett Kavanaugh sits next to Jane Goodall or Pope Francis with Xi Jinping? Yet at the same time, TIME’s 100 is decidedly stodgy. While really an excuse to place a bunch of glossy celebrity photos between ad copy, the constellation of figures ascribes meaning to calendrical time. The TIME 100 bills itself as a list of the Most Influential People of the year that has just passed. Perhaps the most successful branding of this is TIME magazine’s annual Top 100 issue. The new year is marked by best-of lists, many accounts of the Year-In-Review, and prognostications about what is to come.
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