This chapter reads Husserl’s Crisis texts (especially his Origin of Geometry) alongside Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth in order to critically assess the relationship between Husserl and Fanon. Our core claim is that the argument of the Origins allows Husserl to thematize some important aspects of the crisis of Western culture in twentieth-Century Europe, such as the “hollowing” of meaning that occurs in written language; the passivity and domination of the subject in relation to engagement with theory; and the tendency for scientific and other cultural practices to become rote. Yet Husserl’s strategy in that text makes clear how its Eurocentric orientation obscures certain other crises that should be deeply significant to a project that attempts the humanization of Western culture. We bring this out through close engagement with two closely related concepts: the geological phenomenon of “sedimentation,” which is Husserl’s metaphor for the preservation of meaning in tradition, and Fanon’s cognate concept of “petrification,” which describes the compartmentalizing and reifying strategies of colonial institutions. Through this, we demonstrate that Fanon creatively and critically takes up phenomenological resources with Husserlian roots in order to make sense of both colonial and decolonial history, reality, and futurity.