Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Ranging across philosophy, theology, ecology, psychology, and art, Michael Marder argues that the earth and 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. Describing the dump's fundamental characteristics and its effects on the body and 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. Surveying the devastation that is today's reality, Marder provides a frightening yet intellectually spellbinding glimpse of the future"-- Provided by publisher.