瞭解我們所處的、當代的社會：探討物面臨消費品化的各式問題，認識消費社會的「神話」所造成的危害和浪費，探討的範圍包括消費理論和大眾傳媒、身體（作為消費品和象徵符號）。本課程進一步希望能透過文本研讀與分析，瞭解當代消費社會問題的形成，以及消費與我們的生存（死亡）的關係。研讀當代法國哲學家、社會哲學家布西亞（Jean Baudrillard）《消費社會》（La Societe de consommation）以認識後結構主義、符號理論和交換理論，並探討物和用來消費的物、消費和功用化等問題，涉及的問題探討有：大眾媒體（尤其是廣告）與消費神話，符碼化問題，「我」的消費與被消費，並將介紹與學習當代重要理論：擬像（Simulation）理論，象徵符號理論與交換理論，身體哲學。 其次，本課程包含消費理論和個別消費現象的分析。 理論部分，除了消費理論，尚有：物的形式，價值理論。 個別消費現象的分析，大致分為三大部分：媒體（尤其，廣告及大眾傳媒）與消費，身體作為消費品，時間作為消費品。

Understand the contemporary society where we are: exploring the various problems of consumerization in objects, cognizing the harm and waste caused by the "myth" of the consumer society, and the scope of exploration includes consumer theory and public media, bodies (as consumer goods and symbols). This course further hopes to understand the formation of contemporary consumer society problems and the relationship between consumption and our survival (death) through text study and analysis. Study the "La Societe de, a contemporary French philosopher and social philosopher, Jean Baudrillard Consommation) uses post-structure, symbol theory and exchange theory, and explores the objects and objects used for consumption, consumption and functionalization. The issues involved include: public media (especially advertising) and consumption myths, symbolization issues, "I" consumption and consumption, and will introduce and learn important contemporary theories: Simulation theory, symbolism theory and exchange theory, and body philosophy. Secondly, this course includes consumption theory and analysis of individual consumption phenomena. In addition to consumption theory, there are also: the form of things and the theory of value. The analysis of individual consumption phenomena is roughly divided into three parts: media (especially advertising and public media) and consumption, the body is a consumer product, and time is a consumer product.

讓•鮑德里亞：《消費社會》，劉成富﹧全志鋼譯。南京：南京大學出版社，2008年
Jean Baudrillard: La Societe de consommation.
Jean Baudrillard: The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures.

Let • Delhi: "Consumer Society", Liu Chengfu Full Zhi Steel Translation. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2008
Jean Baudrillard: La Societe de consommation.
Jean Baudrillard: The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures.