Comparing Foucault's Discipline And Punish

In Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, he states that “[a] real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation” (202). Real is the idea that something is fixed, permanent, and immovable. Fictitious’ however, is something that is not real or true. He that is exposed to the understanding of his actions and accepts the accountability to act spontaneously under the constraints of his own power becomes a standard to his own exposure. Basically, explaining that if you fake something as small as it may be could cause the outcome to be painstakingly real. That is, to say the gaze of those observing us is a chiasmus. Chiasmus is a verbal pattern where the second half of an expression is composed against the first with revised elements.
This relates to the idea that Barthes was articulating from The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies, “Maupassant often lunched at the restaurant in the Tower, though he didn’t care much for the food: It’s the only place in Paris, he used to say, where I don’t have to see it.”(23). Overall, the indication of what Barthes is suggesting is that dining in the Eiffel Tower was stepping inside the machine of what he disliked most to move away from its power. The machine that is being displayed is the body understanding what reality is for each person. For instance, a simulacrum which is an inadequate imitation of something. Baudrillard argument of hyper reality demonstrates the notion of the simulacrum exquisitely. “[Simulation] is the generation of models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal… The real is produced from memory banks, models or control- and it can be reproduced an indefinite number of times from these …There is a proliferation of myths of origins and signs of reality.” For example, the hyper reality could symbolize the reality of a credit card or you observing a football game on your television set at home. Although, there is no distinct inside or outside primarily; just the line between real and