NYRB notes that Agamben "exalts an ideal he calls 'inoperativity,' which 'does not mean inertia or inactivity [...] but a form of action that implies neither suffering nor effort'"
"Agamben's ideal of inoperativity is influenced by the thought of Heidegger, whom he fatefully encountered six decades ago. After tracing the fatal flaw of Western metaphysics from Plato to the twentieth century, Heidegger came to the conclusion that the only way to escape it was to embrace a new ethic of Gelassenheit, 'letting go' (or 'releasement' as it is often translated). Agamben's late work, too, celebrates a kind of passivity as an antidote to the West's addiction to assertion and domination"
see adjacent note on "form-of-life"
there's a way to understand certain forms of creative endeavor (Cagean process, for instance) as falling under an "inoperative" banner