This essay uses the modern landfill, a hyper-object that the anthropologist Joshua Reno terms the “constitutive absence” of modernity,” to explore the gaps, lacunae, and interstices of a waning era of fossil fuel dominance. In examining the landfill as something akin to the repressed ID of fossil capitalism, it brings into the exposure of the sun both the dark ideological recesses of liberalism and the literal material processes of late capitalism that work to systematically bury the material detritus and human wastage they produce out of sight. An intentional experiment in breaking the strictures of academic expository form, this essay also strives to reoccupy, at least momentarily, the symbolic spaces left behind by the internal contradictions of this decadent version of fossil capitalism we live amidst today. It takes that opportunity to imagine, at least in passing, what it might mean to reinhabit liberalism’s symbolic terrain by reorienting ourselves to a more sustainable alliance with nature centered on the sun and keyed more closely to a solidarity with others that might help us escape the wastefulness and destructive linearity of a transactional consumer culture that drives us further into global warming.