Problems relating to identity, representation and truth have gained an academic profile over the last two decades. Deleuze draws together this constellation of concepts, writing, in Difference and Repetition, that "modern thought is born of the failure of representation, of the loss of stable identity and of the discovery of all forces that act under the representation of the identical".¹ The critique of representation is a theme common to all postmodern philosophers concerned with questions relating to identity. As the feminist philosopher Ollkowski has it, Deleuze is central to the postmodern move which links the analysis of existing conditions to the critique of structure of representation in order to produce the ruin of representation.² Deleuze assures us not only of the immanent demise of representational theories of truth and meaning but, by premising representation on identity, also advocates a general rejection of the philosophical principle of identity.