In the quest for new theoretic answers in response to the climate crisis, Nikolaj Schultz proposes a new existentialism in for the Anthropocene age. In this in-depth interview, on his latest book Land Sickness, Schultz pushes back against the notion of the “individual” from the Lockean liberal tradition and shows that this idea of the individual as autonomous, indivisible, and impenetrable is but a bad description. The individual is always a relational being and this is all the more true in the age of a climate crisis.

Why did you write the book? And why did you choose this auto-fictive/'ethnografictive' style?