Metamodernism. Historicity, Affect and Depth after Postmodernism

Spring 2007, London. Four philosophers - Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman - met to discuss how to bring back into philosophy the long-lost reality in itself. Some relied on mathematical understanding of reality or natural scientific... images of a fading Universe, while others leaned towards radical interpretations of philosophical classics. In this discussion, speculative realism was born - a bold collective attempt to restore philosophy to its former dignity and the courage of speculative thinking.
Speculative realism is not a single position but a space for discussions and intellectual experiments among young philosophers. They united against a common adversary and dared to conceive the reality that hides from us behind the veil of finite human phenomena (language, culture, social and cognitive structures, flesh, etc.). To do what has been forbidden since Kant. "Speculative Realism: An Introduction" is an opportunity to be at the center of the most interesting and ambitious attempt in recent decades to reclaim the future of philosophy.
Graham Harman, a leading theorist of object-oriented ontology (one of the versions of speculative realism), offers his view of speculative realism as a contentious whole, revealing the main positions, points of divergence, and purposes of the four branches of one of the most important currents in contemporary philosophy.