This article discusses the challenges of contemporary aesthetics in times of profound mutation in the ways of feeling, thinking and existing. Assuming that the present mutation occurs in the very sense of form and in all forms of meaning, the article considers that the great challenge of “aesthetics” is to make sense of open senses, to propose open forms of coexistence and action, of thought and sensibility rather than to propose new or other closed and deter-mined senses and forms. Seeking formed forms and closed senses is what characterizes fascism in all its modes of expression and mobilization. The reflection pro-poses a poetics of the is-being, that is, of the gerund, which finds in the sketch and the rhythm some of its indicative words. It considers that in order to resist the fascism of contemporary forms of control, it is necessary to follow the indications of the resistant rests to the processes of totalization of meaning and to invent a language that feels and thinks in the gerund. That would be a way of be-coming forest in times of total devastation.