ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief overview of some significant attempts to think the notion of justice. It employs the notion of surfing as a conceptual figure allowing the delineation of a notion of ethico-political action emancipated from the unproductive dichotomy between active and passive, the grand hubris of revolution and the innocuous self-contentment of temporary autonomous zones. The politics of Walter Benjamin, according to Ari Hirvonen, is neither a politics of great revolutionary programmes, ends, events and heroes, nor an infinite gesture of waiting for an always yet-to-come justice and democracy or revolutionary moment. The paradoxically modest messianism of this programme is inspiring, and yet to some may appear both too little, as a praxis that never challenges the continuum but limits itself to exploit its cracks; and too ambitious, if it pretends these cracks would lead anywhere else than to temporary autonomous zones to be soon re-ingested within the said continuum.
