Translating TimeUnder modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars. Despite the historicity of clock time itself, the modern concept of time is considered universal and culturally neutral. What Walter Benjamin called homogeneous, empty time founds the modern notions of progress and a uniform global present in which the past and other forms of time consciousness are seen as superseded. In Translating Time, Bliss Cua Lim argues that