No Time to Discourse is a speculative atlas that explores climate disasters across North America through interactive mapping and generative flash fiction.
No Time to Discourse follows Rita Raley's call for electronic literature
that narrativizes data (Machine Writing: Translation, Generation,
Automation,
Electronic Literature Organization, University of Porto, July
2017). Each of the millions of possible stories is a work of fiction, yet each also attempts to
capture at a human level the facts of climate disaster. The maps are powered by Leaflet.js and Stamen Design's CC BY 4.0 watercolor map tiles. The stories are procedurally generated by Rita.js, based on extensive rules written by Mark Sample. The code for the project is available under a GPLv3 license.
Mark Sample is a professor and founding chair of the Film, Media, and Digital Studies department at Davidson College. His work uses the expressive power of computation to critique contemporary life.
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