According to David Lyon in his introduction “The search for theories of surveillance”, “The panopticon refuses to disappear”. (4). The prison architecture invented by Jeremy Bentham became the crucial “schema” for Foucault. It emphasizes self-discipline as an archetypal modern mode, replacing previous coercive and brutal methods – “it overturns the principle of the dungeon; or rather its three functions – to enclose, to deprive of light and to hide – it only preserves the first and eliminates the other two” (Foucault 200). In 1975, Foucault coined the term "panopticism" in his book Discipline and Punish, which was quickly used to describe Bentham's utilitarian theory as a whole. However, there has been much debate among Bentham scholars as to whether Bentham would have appreciated Foucault's interpretation of the Panopticon. Philip Schofield writes: "This would have seemed very strange to Bentham, who regarded his Panopticon prison as humane and a huge improvement on the practice of the criminal justice system of the time" (quoted in Ernst-Brunon 2-3) . This gap between an increasingly attractive Bentham and an always repulsive Panopticon is largely attributable to Foucault. If Foucault's interpretation of the Pantopticon brought Bentham's work to a wider audience, conversely, it also made Bentham a precursor of Big Brother. Bentham scholars have consistently deplored Bentham's poor reputation among the general public and the role played by Foucault in this affair. Within surveillance studies (which is a relatively new academic field), they recognize Bentham – at least Foucault's interpretation of Bentham – as one of the leading theorists of this new power of the mind over the body. and mind on mind. One of the reasons why the ......isms in the middle of the article conveys the idea that the panopticon paradigm is no longer an appropriate model for interpreting current surveillance issues and that society has moved to a post-Panoptic Age, which shares some of the characteristics of its Panoptic Foucaultian father and its Panoptic grandfather Bentham, as one inherits traits from a parent” (196). Foucault once wrote: “We live in a society in which panotpicism reigns” (citation needed). Some members of surveillance theory circles believe that this statement is no longer applicable to their field of study. However, the use of reinterpretation recognizes the limitations of panopticism and how reassessing what Foucault-style panopticism is and what the panoptic paradigm is can contribute to the surveillance debate. Researchers have notably proceeded by going back to Bentham and distinguishing Bentham's panopticon from Foucault's panopticism...