This paper seeks to establish connections between the diagnoses of art in society by Benjamin, Rancière, and Perniola in order to understand the contemporary aesthetic crisis characterized as a regime of impersonal feeling. To this end, it is intended to clarify Benjamin’s concept of aura and to establish a connection with art and politics that will be amplified with Rancière. The article will address the causes of the lack of autonomy in contemporary aesthetics, pointed by Perniola, to discuss in what way the emancipation of the spectator is possible by playing with the emptiness, the unspeakable, or the shadow of art.