Starting from the issues arising from the idea of "sublime" and "monstrous" originated in the Romantic period, Giovanbattista Tusa presents some of the recent challenges that lie at the very heart of contemporary aesthetics, which already seem to offer new possibilities for a future perceptiveness not only focused on the subject of Western humanism. In our era, in fact, multiple agents seem to emerge capable of transforming reality and creating radical modifications in the way we perceive it. They are already part of our sensorial and artistic world, and in this sense any discourse that today attempts to consider these times in which we live can no longer exclude the in-human forces with which we coexist, and along with us form the actuality of our times.