Feeling Time POETRY / Ancient & Classical and political climate

and political climate

Muslim Americans now stand at the symbolic center of US politics and public life

to profit from the labor of voluntary and involuntary migrants

his consummate skill in court

apostates and converts

Feeling Time POETRY / Ancient & Classical and political climateLiterary historians have tended to associate the eighteenth century with the rise of the tyranny of the clockthe notion of time as ruled by mechanical chronometry. The transition to standardized scheduling and time discipline, the often told story goes, inevitably results in modernity's time keeper societies and the characterization of modern experience as qualitatively diminished. In Feeling Time, Amit Yahav challenges this narrative of the triumph