"The democratic and social age is then neither the age of the masses nor that of individuals. It is the age of hazardous subjectification, engendered by a pure opening of the unlimited, and constituted from places of speech that are not designatable localities but rather singular articulations between the order of speech and that of classifications. Thus the places of speech from which the limitlessness of the working "class" is projected are not factories or barracks, streets or cabarets. They are texts, phrases, names: reference texts--the Rights of Man or the Old Testament--that permit the articulation of an experience otherwise kept in silence by the separation of languages; phrases and arrangements of phrases that transform, into something visible and utterable, what had no place to be distinguished and was heard only as inarticulate noise, moving into common space new subjects, new legitimacies, and forms in which the former can argue from the latter; words, removed from the common language of designations--names of classes that do not designate any specific collection of individuals but the very disruption of the relations between names and states of affairs."
Jacques Rancière