L’eredità di Bentham. La sorveglianza post-moderna al cospetto del Panopticon

Made possible by ever-rising technologies and becoming the subject of a social message focused on the concept of security, surveillance is a fittingly topical issue. It is no longer just the classic video camera, but RFID, Iot, chip and many other devices scattered everywhere, which no longer aim solely at the control of the person in the flesh but of his or her virtual body. Total surveillance, then, to examine which it seems not only interesting but also appropriate to adopt the perspective outlined by Jeremy Bentham through the elaboration of an equally pervasive model of control, the Panopticon. After summarily reconstructing the basic principles of the panoptic machine. This article highlights the split that exists today between two forms of monitoring, one indebted to Benthamian thought and one that, on the contrary, seems to surpass it, recalling, finally, how both, though different, seem to forget the Benthamian teaching aimed at fostering democratic surveillance.