Dump Philosophy A Phenomenology Of Devastation Michael Marder by Michael Marder 9781350170599, 9781350170605, 9781350170636, 1350170593, 1350170607, 1350170631 instant download after payment.

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.
Ranging across philosophy, theology ecological and psychological processes and art, in Dump Philosophy Michael Marder argues that the earth is in an advanced stage of being converted into a dump for industrial output and its by-products in order to feed consumerism and its excesses. Residues of waste are no longer insubstantial traces in the air or in the water, but forces that reshape habitats, climates, and elemental milieus and the intricate systems that embeds living organisms with and in their environment has become so damaged that dumping has penetrated human and non-human physiologies and caused physical and psychological diseases.
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, he contemplates wider physiological, social, economic, and environmental metabolisms in the age of dumping and the role of philosophy caught in its crosshairs. For students of environmental philosophy, geophilosophy and phenomenology then, he provides a frightening and yet intellectually spellbinding glimpse of the future.