But just as the injustices challenged by Dylan's songs are still very much with us, so too is the need for the all-embracing emancipatory aspiration of The Times They Are a-Changin'.
The end of aura, says Benjamin, will be more than compensated for by the emancipatory capacities of the new technologies of reproduction.
Moreover, this can license a cynicism about the law that is paradoxically contrary to the emancipatory aims of the radical politics that was the impetus for the critique of law as ideology in the first place.
The emancipatory potential of the free disseminationof intellectual property through infinite replication is overwhelming.
Amidst the decline of art criticism, the practice will have to seek new models beyond those based solely on the emancipatory promises of the Internet.
Tumblr is for the emancipatory erotic thrill of finding people who are weird in the very precise and obscure way you are.
Not only that, the real solutions to current problems – more housebuilding, greater regulation of the private rental market, the prevention of South Sea-style property bubbles, and above all, better-paid and more secure work for everyone – can be buried for another day under the emancipatory rhetoric of helping individuals and their families to "live the dream".
But there are also elements of the text that hint at the possibility for positive social change, such that the emancipatory aim of earlier critical theory is not entirely lost.
In their work, the teachers of Reggio have struggled to realise the emancipatory potential of democracy, by giving each child possibilities to function as an active citizen and to have the possibility of a good life in a democratic community (Dahlberg & Moss, 2005b, p.10).
