This article works on the aesthetic experience and the experience of artistic creation as phenomena that although are not an absolute solution or way out to the bureaucratic, totalitarian, control and surveillance machines, at least position themselves as a possibility, among others, to exert a resistance to such machines, especially when the individual is at risk of disappearing or perish in their midst. We start from the idea as what moves men (people) towards horizon promises of life improvement, progress or happiness, but therefore doubtful; then we move to the metaphor, used by George Didi-Huberman, of fi refly as that which resists—aesthetic and creative experience— the disappearance amid that promise horizon which becomes totalitarian, surveillance and control regimes. At last the works of some artists are taken here as a manifestation of that dimension of resistance that can assume the aesthetic and creative experience