Hepimiz Ermeniyiz

"What I call positive subjectification is this process of disidentification. What is important is the disidentifying moment that shifts from identity or an entity as a worker, as a woman, as a black, to a space of subjectification of the uncounted that is open to anyone. This means making the same words mean different things, so that it can refer to closed groups or to open subjects. This open process of disidentification is also a process of universalization. Take the declaration 'We are all German Jews' in Paris, May '68, or the present 'We are all children of immigrants' slogan in France. These names of subjects don't designate groups, they disrupt the system of designations that frame the community in terms of definite standarts of inclusion. A 'movement' invents this operation in specific names, provisory names bound up with specific situation."

from; Democracy, Dissensus and the Aesthetics of Class Struggle: An Exchange with Ranciere