@version yes that’d be my guess. I’m personally fed up with that stuff. I wasted a lot of time with Tiqqun et al. A fantastic journal from a kind of creative-aesthetic point of view, beautiful document of the turn of the millenium. I was always interested in the philosophical moves, the dense constellation of references.
Intro to Civil War is doing something with the traditional aesthetic categories of ‘free play’ and ‘form’, for instance, that commentators never really tease out.
The IC, at the outset of the decade in question, dropped the essays on art and metaphysics to revel in the social chaos du jour. But anyways, their thought ultimately amounts to a deliberately mystified and obscure atavism, tainted as it is with Heidegerrian concerns, an aestheticized ‘ethical’ bona fides to help you network behind the barricades. That third Invisible Committee book
Now was utter garbage and for me marked the end of their relevance, in 2016 no less.
As for how I get my left-intellectual rocks off these days, Chris Cutrone’s latest book
Death of the Millenial Left dates the latter’s ‘moment’ in precisely this way, ‘08-‘16. Out of the Vereo-semiotext(e)-LeftAcc-communization haze, I found his writings and the curriculum of his reading group/journal/public forum Platypus, which emerged in late 2006 and is still going strong. For anyone who ended up feeling they might have jumped the gun with all the post-Marxist paraphernalia of the past few decades, their project can be quite refreshing.