Beyond Petrotoxic Apparatuses

Literature on petroleum and its toxicities understands both as simultaneously social ecological. Beginning with scholarship toxicity that captures simultaneity mutual constitution, this review defines petrotoxicity the socioecological inherent in commodification. The term signals petroleum’s ecological are not merely related, but always/already interdependent Thinking about way frames it something similar to repressive ideological apparatuses. Althusserian apparatuses shape subjects spaces violent bureaucratic ways. Generating resisting petrotoxic consistent themes of literature petrotoxicity. Stuart Hall’s critique Louis Althusser, concludes by highlighting showing limits popular framing power, ecology, intervention vis-à-vis petroleum. Long-term fieldwork North Dakota’s Bakken region informs article at various points.