No Time to Discourse is a speculative atlas that explores climate disaster across North America through interactive mapping and generative flash fiction.
Explore North America, from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the tundra of Northern Canada to the Gulf coast and beyond. No disaster is ever the same. Each of the millions of stories in No Time to Discourse is a work of fiction, yet each also attempts to capture at a human level the realities of climate disaster. The maps are powered by Leaflet.js and Stamen Design's watercolor map tiles. The stories are procedurally generated through Rita.js grammars, based on extensive rules written by Mark Sample. The code for the project is available under a GPLv3 license.
Mark Sample is a professor in the Film, Media, and Digital Studies department at Davidson College. His work uses the expressive power of computation to critique contemporary life. Mark can be found on Bluesky at samplereality@bsky.social.
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