ABSTRACT
The previous chapter looked at the link between the ecstatic self-transcendence experienced through risk-taking, and the creation and maintenance of grounded neo-tribal configurations. This chapter examines in more detail the surfing aesthetic which has emerged out of the subculture’s reflexive social formations; in particular the meanings attached to risk-taking and communion with nature through the development of a postmodern sublime, and the implications of this for surfing’s social configurations.
