Searching for Totality: Antinomy and the 'Absolute' in Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix

'''Thompson, Craig. "Searching for Totality: Antinomy and the 'Absolute' in Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix."' SFS'' #54, 18.2 (July 1991): 198-209.

Technological progress creates "vessels that create interiors and exteriors" in which the protagonist is "transported, protected, contained, restrained, and mediated" (198). The protagonist must reject technology to achieve wholeness.