Fanon's nuanced analysis of colonisation as spatial organisation is important to understanding our 'postcolonial' time. Colonial spatial organisation relies on everyday racism, which is thus both a lived ideology and an alienating spatial relation. Colonial violence and domination are inscribed into and mediated through the spatial organisation of colonisation, its compartmentalised socio-racial order. Fanon emphasised that the colonial spatial organisation and racialisation of life impose a double siege upon the colonised: one simultaneously spatial, and of their consciousness and existence. Never solely based on naked force, colonialism depended on the more complex and mediated form of moderating violence constituting the colonial subject, and imposing the present as definitive.