The advent of the metropolis in 18th century Europe engendered a progressive process of aestheticization of the existence that radically altered the status of the image and the imaginary in our societies. Begun with the invention of Kitsch, Art Nouveau and mass media, radicalized by means of twentieth century artistic avant-garde and then by the counter-cultures, nourished by pop art, celebrated by television, it now seems to take place in the plots of digital life: among stories, reels, snaps and memes, or where the masses of the past are transformed simultaneously into art, artist, spectacle, information and object of consumption. Thus, while we witness the emancipation of the public Nietzsche, Benjamim and McLuhan dreamed of, we also see...