Awake in the World; Insomnia and the Arts of Living in Belgrade argues that insomniac experience is immensely productive to think time with. Insomnia queers (verb) time. Awake in the World, in addition to being a theoretical engagement with problems such as Sleep Industrial Complex, experience of sleeplessness, politics of sleep and politics of health and daily life is an exploration of form. I mobilize my background in visual anthropology to probe the limits of ethnographic inquiry. My writing examines familiar expressions - racing against time, feeling out of sync, not present, exhausted, adrift from one’s own time, not being in control - which reveal how time is not only learned but disciplined through the everyday routines of modern life. Sitting at the intersection of medical anthropology, disability studies and queer and black feminist studies I trace how insomniacs struggle with (a)synchrony in a city where foreign capital and authoritarian rule restructure the rhythms of life.