Just in case you weirdly read this blog, but not the group blog, check out this post explaining an upcoming event exploring the interactions of speculative realism and critical animal studies. I am calling it The Speculative Animal event, but no one else has signed off on that language, if you know what I mean.
Also, Calarco has a response up on the Levinas section. I think his ultimate explanation of destroying morality is really quite worthwhile of a read.
The agony of the rat or the slaughter of a calf remains present in thought not through pity but as the zone of exchange between man and animal in which something of one passes into the other. - Deleuze and Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
