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I read TCI when it came out in English & I remember liking it, it seemed many of us did. Oh, well. I really don't remember much of it now, it was a lite snack that tasted good but was ultimately unsatisfying.

Where I would push back on this is in the area of "truth".

"The most telling thing the Invisible Committee has to say about “truth” is that “Conversely, any observation that leaves us indifferent, doesn’t affect us, doesn’t commit us to anything, no longer deserves the name of truth” (97). In other words, truth is determined by the emotional power of an observation, not by whether it has any connection with the concrete world in which we live."

I wouldn't judge what is truth by emotional content alone, for sure. Still I do find it interesting that Wolfi, champion of the Individual par excellence, just dismisses out of had the emotions as if they do not have connection to the "concrete world in which we live". Are not emotions part of the body of an individual?
I would say the emotional content of something is information to be considered in forming theories about the world, why would we NOT consider them?