About the Author

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Steven Seidenberg is an artist and writer whose collections of photos include Pipevalve: Berlin (Lodima Press, 2017), and the forthcoming The Architecture of Silence: The Abandoned Life of the Italian South. His works of prose, verse, and aphorism include plain sight (Roof Books, 2020), Situi> (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Itch (RAW ArT Press, 2014) and the forthcoming Anon (Omnidawn, 2021). His work has been shown in various venues in Italy, Japan, Germany, Mexico, and the United States. Carolyn L. White is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she holds the Mamie Kleberg Chair in Historic Preservation. Her research focuses on cultural heritage, the materiality of daily life, the intersection of and collaboration between art and archaeology, the built environment, and archaeology of the present. She has studied numerous archaeological sites in the mainland US, Hawaii, England, Japan, Italy, and Germany and pioneered the theory and practice of active site archaeology. Her newest book is The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City (University of New Mexico Press, 2020).