Impossible Totality and Domesticity:

In Greek mythology, Daedalus serves as a warning for the hubris of designers who fail to consider the consequences of their quest for design quality. Daedalus’ name, not incidentally, means ‘clever worker’; his skill was unsurpassed and his creations were exquisite, complex, and clever. And each ultimately led to tragedy. The complexity of his Cretan Labyrinth imprisoned the Minotaur and hindered efforts to slay the beast, yet was ultimately undone by a roll of thread. After designing the Labyrinth, Daedalus was himself imprisoned in a tower on Crete so he could not divulge the Labyrinth’s secret. He crafted wings to enable him and his son, Icarus, to fly to freedom. Icarus, exhilarated by the technology, strayed too close to the sun, melting the wax binding the feathers in his wings, and plunged to his death in the sea. And Daedalus’s jealousy of his nephew Perdix’s growing design ability – Perdix had invented the saw and the compass – led him to kill the boy by throwing him from the Acropolis.