In this book, whose title takes its cue from the text of Gene Youngblood, "Expanded Cinema", the author claims that a profound destabilization of the artistic system occurred, defined by him as the "fringe" turning point in contemporary art. Many traditional barriers have collapsed; a vastly wider horizon has opened up within which it is difficult to orient oneself. It involves many dangers, but at the same time offers new opportunities for those wishing to venture on this terrain, on the condition that they know how to transform the many disordered and fragmented information we have in a coherent discourse that constitutes a new aesthetic knowledge capable of directing an activity gripping artistry. The single artistic production is no longer enough to itself, but requires for its understanding a set of data that solicit the utmost attention and give it legitimacy and authority: Perniola therefore introduces the neologism of "artistization" and focuses on the operations that make it possible.