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In recent years, Danish sociologist Nikolaj Schultz (1990), PhD Fellow at Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, has emerged as an influential voice in social theory and ecological thinking. Schultz was a close collaborator of late French philosopher Bruno Latour (1947-2022) in the years before his passing. In 2022, Schultz and Latour co-authored On the Emergence of an Ecological Class. A Memo (translated from French by Julie Rose, Polity Books, 2023), a short text on how to construct from below a strong political subject ready to fight for the habitability of the planet in the wake of global climate change. A year after its publication, the book was translated in more than a dozen languages and quickly became a point of inspiration for political actors such as the Green Party in France (EELV) and the German Climate Movement (in German: Zur Entstehung einer ökologischen Klasse, Suhrkamp 2022). Later the same year, Schultz published Land Sickness (Polity Books, 2023), currently translated into eight languages, a hybrid text that he calls an “auto-etnografictive essay” on the sociological and existential questions that the Anthropocene force us to pose. It is available in German as Landkrank (translated by Michael Bischoff, published by Suhrkamp 2024). Nikolaj Schultz is currently writer in residence at PART International Art Residency Austria.