"subversive potential" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to something's capacity to threaten or undermine the status quo, usually in a political context. For example, "The internet's subversive potential has enabled citizens to challenge existing systems of power."
IAE often "insists on art's subversive potential".
But from the start Fassbinder was also taken with the subversive potential of genre filmmaking.
Although regulation blunted much of the subversive potential of radio, it did not entirely kill it.
The subversive potential of new technologies, Mr. Stephens said, has only begun to be tapped.
She was attracted to history as a field, because like those 1960s activists, she believes in the subversive potential of history to interrogate received wisdom.
Many recent events have been fuelled by a fear that the internet is under siege by governments hell-bent on restricting its subversive potential.
One or two papers offer strongly negative characterizations of world English, as in the suggestion by Thiru Kandiah that the issue of intelligibility is just 'an expedient hegemonistic ploy to secure and maintain the status of standard English across the world' and that 'English has a vitiating and subversive hegemonic potential' to dominate countries (104).
Portelli circles the question of oral history, in gaining traction in the academy and becoming something of an interdisciplinary-discipline, losing much of its subversive and destabilizing potential?
But despite the potential subversive thrill, this graffiti lasts only as long as the projector is on, which is why video sites like YouTube are vital in preserving it.
Critical, artistic, and academic genres such as "Sound Art," "Audio Culture," and "Sound Studies"—which seek to ground and legitimize acoustic practices within the institutions of university and museum have just as often come with inflated theoretical and rhetorical claims about both the historical denigration of the acoustic and its "subversive" or "revolutionary" potential.
Europe is his abiding passion as well as his area of expertise, and there are several essays in "Facts Are Subversive" on the potential for peaceful, democratic Europe to serve as a model for the world, one that Europeans themselves seem determined to squander.
