82岁的斯图亚特·霍尔(Stuart Hall)2014年2月10日辞世,诸多媒体纷纷报道,不禁让人想起2002年的情景。那一年的6月,英国伯明翰大学关闭了该校的文化研究与社会学系(“当代文化研究中心”的前身),引来媒体的一片惊呼。许多人感到困惑:为什么文化研究的发祥地居然惨遭不测?如今,霍尔一死,老一代人的文化研究 The 82-year-old Stuart Hall passed away on February 10, 2014 and many media outlets have reported that it can not help but remind us of the situation in 2002. That year in June, the University of Birmingham closed the school’s Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology ( “Center for Contemporary Culture ” predecessor), attracted a media exclamation. Many people are puzzled: why the birthplace of cultural studies unexpectedly unexpected? Now, Hall died, the older generation of cultural studies