What is at issue is the possibility for an individual, defined as a mere human animal, and clearly distinct from any Subject, to decide to become part of a political truth procedure. To become, in a nutshell, a militant of this truth…This is the moment when an individual declares that he or she can go beyond the bounds (of selfishness, competition, finitude…) set by individualism (or animality- they’re one and the same thing). He or she can do so to the extent that, while remaining the individual that he or she is , he or she can also become, through incorporation, an active part of a new Subject. I call this decision, this will, a subjectivation. More generally speaking, a subjectivation is always the process whereby an individual determines the place of a truth with respect to his or her own vital existence and to the world in which this existence is lived out. - alain badiou