Desert America : Territories of Paradoxon

This book is an image and text essay on the American desert as a huge paradox. The awesome experience of its immensity and silence is just a mirage. Beneath that outward appearance, the sounds of all kinds of activities, experiments, mysteries, utopias, are hidden. The desert is also the setting of fictions, of oases of entertainment, consumerism and play, and also of the secret staging of military power.