This chapter unites animal studies and petrocultures through developing a theoretical practice and labour of attention. Drawing alliances within the two fields requires a praxis of attention illuminating our present inefficiency of capturing the exploitation and suffering which petroculture theorists often describe as being hidden in plain sight. With a combination of animal studies scholars and feminist philosophy, I illuminate how noticing is a deeply political act which can transform the position of the nonhuman animal and the environment devastation wrought by violent energy regimes. Contending with this politics of vision, I first turn to Rob Nixon’s notion of slow violence and the feminist-vegetarian politics of Carol J. Adams’ concept of the absent referent. These theoretical tools I suggest are methods of exposure. Nixon’s slow violence aims to articulate the slow-moving atrocity of climate emergency, which often fails to be captured, and Adams’ absent referent illuminates the cognitive dissonance at the heart of meat eating and animal suffering where one dissociates through both abstract and material distance from the dead animal. Bringing these theoretical tools of exposure together offers a way of magnifying the operations of displacement which shape both energy production and the treatment of nonhuman animals. Accompanying these theoretical tools of exposure will be an ethics of vulnerability, vulnerability being a modality that renders us open to the suffering and exploitation of the nonhuman and the environment. I combine three thinkers of vulnerability: Judith Butler, Simone Weil, and Anat Pick. All three I argue provide vulnerability as basis for attending to another being whether that be human or animal. Moving from tools of analysis to capture operations of displacement to a radical antidote of vulnerable ethics, this theoretical exploratory chapter examines how vulnerability poses a radical rupture in the capitalist machinations and energy regimes which render nonhuman life as an inanimate resource.