Foucault shares a distaste for boundaries with other postmodern thinkers, such as Jacques Derrida or Gilles Deleuze. Commenting on the nature of postmodernism Alan Wolfe rightly notes that the essence of the approach is to question the presumed boundaries between groups: of signifiers, people, species, or texts. What appears at first glance to be a difference is reinterpreted, discovered to be little more than a distinction rooted in power or a move in a rhetorical game. Differences, in other words, never have a fixed status in and of themselves;
