Speculative Realism and Other Heresies

This paper is a presentation of Speculative

Realism that provides a brief summary of the

most important protagonist’s positions: Quentin

Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Graham Harman and Iain

Hamilton Grant. It includes a short history of this

tendency starting from the Goldsmith workshop in

April 2007 and mentioning more recent strategies and

approaches such as Object Oriented Ontology and

Accelerationism. At the end, Italian Nuovo Realismo

will be taken into account in order to understand if it 

shares the metaphysical assumptions of Speculative

realism or if it is metaphysical assumptions or if it is

another kind of realism.