This essay argues that an accent on resistance pervasive in current literature on consumer culture and religion drives a narrow application of Michel de Certeau's distinction between strategies and tactics. This paradigmatic appropriation of Certeau's work uses his notion of tactics to describe a mode of Christian resistance that can persist even without overthrowing the strategic grid of consumer culture. Situating quotidian tactics within the wider body of his work, I argue that they are not, for Certeau, primarily signs of resistance, but signs of absence: living realities that pulse within and against systems of strategies that can never quite contain them. I propose reading tactics through a hermeneutic of absence to open a space for a theological account of consumer culture that takes seriously the irreducibility of our experiences, even those in and through the distortions of the contemporary market.

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倾听哭声：超越战略和战术的塞托

本文认为，当前关于消费文化和宗教的文献中普遍强调抵抗，导致了米歇尔·德塞托 (Michel de Certeau) 对战略和战术之间的区别的狭隘应用。这种对塞托作品的范式挪用使用他的策略概念来描述一种基督教抵抗的模式，这种抵抗模式即使不推翻消费文化的战略网格也能持续存在。将日常策略置于他更广泛的作品中，我认为，对于 Certeau 来说，它们主要不是抵抗的迹象，而是缺席的迹象：活生生的现实在永远无法完全遏制它们的战略系统内脉动并与之对抗。我建议通过缺席的解释学来阅读策略，为消费文化的神学解释开辟一个空间，认真对待我们经验的不可还原性，