No Time to Discourse is a speculative atlas of global heating, combining interactive mapping with generative flash fiction to explore potential climate disasters across North America.
At the ELO conference in Porto in 2017, Rita Raley suggested that electronic literature can "narrativize data." No Time to Discourse is my attempt to narrativize the facts of global heating. While each story is a work of fiction, it attempts to capture at a human level the truth of climate disaster. Inspirations include fiction such Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower series and Stephen Markley's The Deluge, as well as nonfiction such as Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First and the reporting of Elizabeth Kolbert.
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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