NYRB: in The Use of Bodies (2014), "Agamben coins the term 'form-of-life' to describe [an inoperative] form of living. 'Form-of-life, the properly human life,' he writes, 'is the one that, by rendering inoperative the specific works and functions of the living being, causes them to idle, so to speak, and in this way opens them into possibility"
he refers to Fernand Deligny's work with autistic children, transcribing their movements and their "lines of drift"