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Nº 5. Inaugurating its new volume of publications, THE-ICONOMIST presents an unusual thematic dossier built around the verbs “To watch” and “To speculate”. Inspired by excerpts from Michel Foucault’s book “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of The Prison” and William Shakespeare’s poem “All The World’s A Stage”, we explore the complex issues of surveillance in the digital age and the role of security cameras in contemporary society. Instead of creating images generated by artificial intelligence, we decided to delve into the vast banks of digital images available on servers around the world. This method seeks to give new meaning to an often forgotten arsenal of imagery, visually composing this issue with authentic and historically charged material.