De la época de los suplicios a la era de la autovigilancia

This research paper seeks to explore history to explain why our society isself-policed. From the typology of the architecture of power, as that spaceinhabited through the control and surveillance exercised by the punishersover the punished, to the arrival of the Internet as a new space of invisible power articulated through the user’s constant connection to a transparentworld that becomes a false appearance.To this end, it is important to explore the past, observing the evolution of these systems of punishment. Thanks to Michael Foucault’s studies of these spaces, we observe an evolution of the dynamics of torture driven in the spectacle and in the public sphere by a hidden disciplinary architecture that seeks to remain private due to the shame these torturous punishmentsexerted.Concepts about madness and truth will be addressed as central points in the consecration of these spaces of power. We cannot fail to address utilitarian theorist Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon theory, exploring the concept of the panopticon as an interest in the emergence of this theory in our contemporary world.