Nikolaj Schultz is a sociologist and PhD candidate at the University of Copenhagen.
If there is a book which can mobilize us for the urgent ecological engagement, it is Land Sickness. It combines in a unique way the aesthetic pleasure of casual reading with the deepest existential engagement. Slavoj i ek This book is perhaps the first of a long series: a Bildungsroman, except that it is not about a self that adjusts to the social world, but about a self that no longer knows what to do with a natural world that exhausts it. Hence the hybrid genre of affects and theories. Bruno Latour How to recover the self in and after the Anthropocene - this remarkable little book will work like an inspiring manual for those contemplating that task. Dipesh Chakrabarty Nikolaj Schultz has given us a movingly rendered meditation on the moral dead ends we encounter as we attempt to navigate our way through the disorienting world of the Anthropocene. A unique and often tormented blend of personal struggle and ecological commentary that leaves the reader in a state of beautiful dread. Clive Hamilton