ABSTRACT
The title for this chapter refers to Robert Scott, the polar explorer, who seems a curiously prescient figure when considered from the threshold of the emergent digital age. Scott set out to explore a new territory, a harsh and expansive space of frozen liquidity; yet, equally, he seemed to chart a mental space, the tortured emergence of modernity through the hypertrophy of a regimented system. For Scott’s enterprise was vainly crippled, simultaneously impelled and thwarted by the British imperialism that was relentless in its demands for the furtherance of its knowledge and influence, yet hampered in the prescribed manner of its attainment. The expedition was mounted mindless as to the actuality of the deadly new environment, a macabre horse-drawn funerary march.
