In the fall of 2017, Ben Ehrenreich traded one desert landscape for another, and moved from Joshua Tree to Las Vegas. By then, he had already embarked on a journey through time, with owls—some real, some mythical—as his guides, who would ultimately lead him to The End. In Las Vegas, where he spent a semester as the 2017 Shearing Fellow at the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, Ben covered his office walls in index cards. These cards, with scribbled notes on imperialism, environmental collapse, and time (as measured by both natural and imposed human forces) eventually took shape as Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time, an urgent, meditative account on how we arrived at our current reality, and where we possibly have left to go from here.
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