Julien Murphy, Professor of Philosophy, has published in the Australian Journal of Environmental Education’s special edition, Beyond the Metacrisis: Educating for the Future World to Come, March 2026.
Professor Murphy’s article, co-written with Professor Constance L. Mui of Loyola University, is entitled Reimagining Education in the Metacrisis with Sartre, Dufourmantelle and Stiegler. In addressing the Anthropocene (the unofficially named geological time period in which human activity has become the dominant influence on Earth’s climate), Professor Murphy’s paper outlines a “negentropic education” to counter technological and capitalist erosion of learning. Drawing on Sartre’s existential freedom against nihilism and Dufourmantelle’s concepts of wise-risking and gentleness, it proposes a pedagogy for coping with climate anxiety, ultimately aiming for radical social transformation and authentic environmental reconnection.
The article can be found here.