The question of degrowth in art is not solely linked to the economic aspect and the role that contemporary art plays within the market as a “safe investment”. It also has to do with three other major aspects: (a) the disruption of connections between the biological foundations of the world and the realm of signs and machines: an epochal mutation that raises the question of the ‘de-colonisation’ of the imagination; (b) a new concept of the aesthetic that extends significantly beyond that of its German philosophical heritage; (c) and finally, the observation that art . and especially contemporary art . plays a fundamental role in the collective imagination. Indeed, our concept of contemporary art is based on a critique of the notion of the ‘Art World’. Two major new themes can be identified in aesthetic and artistic developments of the last half-century: on the one hand are practices inspired by new technologies, and on the other is the vast movement of research around environmental aesthetics. In conclusion, the article prefigures an art practiced not only for the growth of a productive activity, but above all as a discipline of the mind . in other words, a relationship of aesth-ethics.