Others, though, are not so sure about placing too much value on technology's liberating potential.
"What if the liberating potential of the Internet also contains the seeds of depoliticization and thus dedemocratization?" he asks.
"What if the liberating potential of the Internet also contains the seeds of depoliticization and thus dedemocratization?" Morozov asks in this challenging, contrarian book.
Her edition of the biennial, which mixes historical figures such as John Cage and Alberto Giacometti with younger artists like Laura Lima and Laurent Montaron, is, she wrote in her presentation, anchored in the imagination's liberating potential.
If it changed the rules for what was possible in literary fiction, A Boy's Own Story, a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic, also marked a new direction for White, and confirmed the liberating potential of a closely autobiographical kind of novel, where the testamentary force of memoir is coupled with the artifice of fiction.
Even the most jazz-appreciative films — a label that surely describes Mikio Naruse's 1960 proto-feminist drama "When a Woman Ascends the Stairs" and Preminger's 1959 rape-trial thriller "Anatomy of a Murder" — tend to draw on jazz's smart, sexy aura but not its liberating potential.
Karaoke has a liberating potential.
After grad school, drawn in by the "liberating" potential of electronic music, she decided to forego the traditional composer's route and take up a job soldering circuit-boards in his studio.
I just doubt that the liberating potential of technology can be realized without defeating the accountability hawks' efforts to turn schools into assembly lines as if it was 1911, not 2011.
The authors have created a meta-language whereby the constricting and liberating potentials of language are played out on top of a rollicking, plot driven story.The novel, which can now be read in its entirety, was initially serialized.
The more China liberalizes its economy, the more fully it will liberate the potential of its people -- their initiative, their imagination, their remarkable spirit of enterprise.
