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