Sinan Richards is a British Academy Research Fellow at King’s College London, UK. He is also a member of Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires sur le politique (CRIPOLIS) based at the Universite´ Paris Cite´, France. He is currently finishing his next book, Homo Alienatus: Freedom and Psychosis in Lacan and Fanon (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), which will investigate the many overlapping connections between the early Lacan and the young Fanon.