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Resisting Oblivion | The Point Magazine

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With The Aesthetics of Resistance, Weiss was attempting something rare in the history of the form: a novel that marries vanguard politics and avant-garde aesthetics.

To be an American in Europe is to live in the future of events, but in the past of news. On the morning of November 8, 2016, I woke up in Berlin with a sense of dread. Six to ten hours behind me, Americans were sleeping, trying to sleep, finding themselves unable to sleep. Over the course of the next 24 hours, just under half of them, if history was any guide, would each perform a simple task, pulling a lever, or checking a box, or touching a square on a screen, physical movements inconsequential in and of themselves but which, in aggregate, would impact nearly everyone on the planet for at le

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