Laurence A. Rickels
American literary and media theorist (born 1954) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Laurence Arthur Rickels (born December 2, 1954) is an American literary and media theorist, whose most significant works have been in the tradition of the Frankfurt School's efforts to apply psychoanalytic insights to mass media culture. Some of his best known works include The Case of California, The Vampire Lectures, and the three volume work Nazi Psychoanalysis. After 30 years at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he was appointed successor to Klaus Theweleit in April 2011 to the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, where he was professor of Art and Theory for six years. During spring semester 2018 Rickels held the Eberhard Berent Goethe Chair at New York University. In the summers, he serves as the Sigmund Freud Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.[1]
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Laurence Rickels | |
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Born | (1954-12-02) December 2, 1954 (age 69) Cherokee, Iowa, United States |
Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Psychoanalysis · Frankfurt School · Deconstruction |
Main interests | German literature, Science fiction, Cultural studies, media theory, the Occult |
Website | http://larickels.com |