(3) 'Reading Fanon with Lacan': Derek Hook interviews Sinan Richards : Breaking the colonial world

Sinan addresses the famous opening essay in The Wretched of the Earth as a means of thinking about the challenge of breaking out of the colonial world. We note Fanon's references to the 'the end of the world' (p. 96 and p. 216 in the Markmann trans of BSWM) and related conceptualizations (such as the zone of nonbeing). Sinan discusses how Fanon uses Lacan's idea of "the fertile moments of delirium" and ask how we might best conceptualize freedom in the work of both Fanon and Lacan, stressing also the democratization of psychosis that is evident in (particular the late) Lacan's work.