Plant philosopher Michael Marder, accompanied by the images of artist Anaïs Tondeur, confronts us with the "dirtiest" face of late capitalism and the Anthropocene, guiding us through the landfills in which we are mired and their physiological, social, political, and environmental consequences. The garbage—our garbage—continues to grow: we step on it (it engulfs us); we drink it (microplastics included); we breathe it (until we run out of oxygen).

"The Philosophical Landfill" is an original essay on the concept of waste and landfills, the disposable (according to Marder, all of existence), and our inaction in saving ourselves from our own excrement. The landfill refers not only to the remains of industrial overproduction and rampant consumerism, but also to planet Earth in its entirety, with all its ecosystems and organisms, including humanity and its inevitably contaminated intellectual output. Landfill is the name that defines the essence of our time.