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Dump Philosophy
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Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
202
Release Date:
2020-12-10
Publication Date:
2020-12-10
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1350170607
ISBN13:
9781350170605
Weight:
262 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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