Ranging across philosophy, theology, ecology, psychology, and art,
in Dump Philosophy Michael Marder argues that the earth, along with
everything that lives and thinks on it, is at an advanced stage of
being converted into a dump for industrial output and its
by-products feeding consumerism and its excesses. Every day,
scientific studies, media reports, and first-hand accounts of the
rapidly deteriorating state of the environment hit us with a
growing and disconcerting force. Trends such as microplastics in
water, airborne toxins, topsoil degradation, and dangerous levels
of carbon dioxide have upset the delicate ecological balance that
has until now been sustaining life on the planet. Marder's original
treatise paints a portrait of the Anthropocene as a global dump
which wreaks havoc, causing disease and degrading our sensation,
perception, and thinking, so that nuance is lost and ideas are
reduced to soundbites in chains of free association. Describing the
dump's fundamental characteristics and its effects on the body and
the mind, he contemplates wider physiological, social, economic,
and environmental metabolisms in the age of dumping, as well as the
role of philosophy caught in its crosshairs. While surveying the
devastation that is the reality of the twenty-first century, the
book provides a frightening and yet intellectually spellbinding
glimpse of the future.
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