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Coyote Ugly (2000, David McNally)

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Coyote Ugly 2000

Dir. David McNally

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The Outer Limits (TV Series) - S2/E11 ’The Refuge’ (1996) M. Emmet Walsh as Sanford Vallé

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Coyote Ugly (2000)

Dir. David McNally

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“During the era in which coinage emerged, the authenticity of a gold coin could be checked by recourse to a basanos, a touchstone upon which pure gold, when rubbed, left a unique mark. Over time, the term basanos came to refer to the test itself, not merely the touchstone. But the most intriguing semantic shift took place sometime after silver coinage was introduced by the Athenian polis (probably in the late sixth century BCE). Having minted coins, the state also needed to protect against counterfeits, and to provide a public test of authenticity. For a period of time, testing of coins was performed publicly in the agora by a state-owned enslaved person, known as the Dokimastes, who received fifty lashes for failure to stay at his post, or for failing to test according to the stipulations of the law. A slave’s body--always subject to the threat of violence--functioned here as the ultimate guarantee of the integrity of money. The enslaved person who served as the Dokimastes became a sort of human basanos, and thus implicitly something both animate and inanimate, inhabiting an uncertain zone between the living and the dead. The epistemology of money was thus grounded in the enslaved body and the right of violence against it, in a series that went money -> touchstone -> slave. This direct link between truth, violence, and the enslaved body facilitated a further, somewhat jarring, semantic shift as the word basanos came to designate not a stone for testing coins, nor the test itself, but the act of torturing an enslaved person’s body in order to elicit testimony in a legal proceeding. This alteration in meaning thus connected coins and enslaved people as objects whose bodies could be vessels of truth. This was the context in which basanos came to denote the use of violence against the enslaved body to produce truth in a legal proceeding.”

--David McNally, Blood and Money (2020)

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