Short abstract:

Extending Mbembe’s analysis of ‘deathscapes’ to fracking technology broadly, as an expression of state sovereignty. A death beyond the imperceptibility as it is cancer cells that grown, air pollution that we cannot see and water contamination that we may be unaware of which slowly kills.

Long abstract:

Extending Mbembe’s analysis of ‘deathscapes’ to fracking technology broadly, as an expression of state sovereignty. A death beyond the imperceptibility as it is cancer cells that grown, air pollution that we cannot see and water contamination that we may be unaware of which slowly kills.I put Nixon’s (2011) slow violence in conversation with Mbembe’s necropolitics as a way to explore the impact of fracking and I coin the term necrotechnology to position the ways environmental technologies govern life and death. Therefore, in order to center death, I develop a concept of necrotochnology, which is fully explicated in in each of the chapters. I use the term Nectrotechnologies to refer to the ways technologies like fracking become tools or mechanisms of death and thereby creating/constructing the ‘living dead.’ Fracking, as a technology, is a mechanism for the ‘deathscape,’ operating through logics of capitalism and state sovereignty but also through logics of death and importantly the anticipation of death. Many fracktivists deploy conceptions of the deathscape in their modes of protest and their desire to publicize the harmful health and environmental impacts.