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The desert is a huge paradox. Beneath its outward appearance of immensity and silence, are the sounds of various experiments, mysteries, and utopias. The setting of outrageous true histories, entertainment oases founded on consumerism and play, and the secret staging of military power, the desert is far from empty. Instead, it is full of activity: unexpected, uninhibited, and excessive. Not subject to barriers and seemingly free of the formal, ideological or cultural ties of global society, the desert cultivates alternate architectures, urbanisms, and built phenomena. Through photographs, essays, and history, this book emerges as an exploration of some of these phenomena and the protagonists that made them possible.
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Looking at the intersection of nature and technology in America's driest, hottest, and most expansive states, this book explores the variety of strange ways people use this place of paradoxes. -- John Hill "Archidose"
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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.
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