The Shadow Fills The Void...

Stolen from an email from Caput Mortuum:

There are those who want a text (an art, a painting) without a shadow, without the "dominant ideology; but this is to want a text without fecundity, without productivity, a sterile text (see the myth of the Woman without a Shadow). The text needs its shadow; this shadow is a bit of ideology, a bit of representation, a bit of subject: ghosts, pockets, traces, necessary clouds: subversion must produce its own chiaroscuro

Roland Barthes
(32, Le Plaisir du texte).