Has Speculative Realism effectively transformed the figure of the artist and the object of the artwork within the twenty-first century? Why or why not?

Please review the themes of (un)civilization and (post)anthropocentrism, introduce the tenets of ‘speculative realism’ specifically through a lens aimed at histories of environmentalism and the philosophical problem of ‘nature’. In particular, please attempt to identify those forces that are at once seemingly alien and familiar.
Reading List:
Art Beyond Art, London: Third Text Publications,
Hyperobjects, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Levi Bryant, Graham Harman and Nick Srnicek (eds.), The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism, Melbourne: re.press, 2011.
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (ed.), Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Peter Gratton, Speculative Realism: An Introduction, London: Continuum, 2012.
Graham Harman, The Third Table, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, Documenta 13, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2011.
Eugene Thacker, After Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Ben Woodard, On an Ungrounded Earth, New York: Punctum Books, 2013.