Modern energy production is informed by a politics of visibility in which deliberate corporate evasion, spatial distancing and cognitive dissonance shape both oil and meat culture. This chapter aims to render the peripheral space of oil extraction and meat production in dialogue through an analysis of Michel Faber’s Under the Skin and Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon. Throughout my literary analysis of these two texts that provide an essential telescopic function of zones of extraction, I aim to demonstrate how these works ‘make us see, hear, and intimate the land differently’ (Gómez-Barris 2017, xx). Informed through animal studies inquiry and decolonial theory, I suggest how the ‘human’ in the texts is not a neutral category but is informed through legacies of colonialism and that constitute a deadly erasure which renders life extractable matter. Through an analysis of capitalist imperialism, I look to a poetics of the offshore of energy production in Lagoon and the hidden enclosures of meat production in Under the Skin as a way of capturing the effects of extractive regimes. Towards the latter stages of the chapter, I turn to an ethics of vulnerability and explore the ways multispecies encounters in these extraction zones provide both exposure and resistance to capitalist market relations, which turn different species and the environment into objects of consumption. The chapter’s literary analysis of the narratives invites the question of whether an exposure to vulnerability can provide a mode of resistance to projects of violent extraction.