The Act as "Bartleby" Inactivity

Quote from Living in the End Times, pp. 400-401:

"rather than actively resisting power, the Bartleby gesture of 'preferring not to' suspends the subject's libidinal investment in it -- the subject stops dreaming about power. To put it in mockingly Stalinist terms, emancipatory struggle begins with the ruthless work of self-censorship and auto-critique -- not of reality, but of one's own dreams.
   The best way to grasp the core of the obsessive attitude is through the notion of false activity: you think you are active, but your true position, as embodied in the fetish, is passive. Do we not encounter something akin to this false activity in the typical strategy of the obsessive neurotic, who becomes frantically active in order to prevent the real thing from happening (in a tense group situation, the obsessive talks continually, cracks jokes, etc., in order to ward off that awkward moment of silence in which the underlying tension would become unbearable)? The 'Bartleby act' is violent precisely insofar as it entails refusing this obsessive activity -- in it, not only do violence and non-violence overlap (non-violence appears as the highest violence), so too do act and inactivity (here the most radical act is to do nothing).
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   If theology is again emerging as a point of reference for radical politics, it is so not by way of supplying a divine 'big Other' who would guarantee the final success of our endeavors, but, on the contrary,
as a token of our radical freedom in having no big Other to rely on."