Please answer the following question: Read the bio below and try to give details on laurence a. rickels 's: - influences - region - school tradition - awards - birth date - main interests - name - website - era - birth place Bio: laurence arthur rickels -lrb- born december 2 , 1954 -rrb- is an american literary and media theorist , whose most significant works have continued the frankfurt school 's efforts to apply psychoanalytic insights to analysis and criticism of modern 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 , rickels followed the '' ruf '' -lrb- '' call '' or appointment -rrb- as successor to klaus theweleit in april 2011 to the academy of fine arts , karlsruhe , where he is currently professor of art and theory . in the summers , rickels serves as the sigmund freud professor of media and philosophy at the european graduate school in saas-fee , switzerland .
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- influences is sigmund binswanger nicolas abraham maria torok freud jacques derrida theodor adorno walter benjamin ludwig- region is western philosophy- school tradition is psychoanalysis frankfurt school deconstruction- awards is sterling morton prize , 2nd place 1972- birth date is 02 december 1954- main interests is german studies media theory vampirism occult mourning literature science fiction nazi germany mass media cultural- name is laurence rickels- website is http://larickels.com- era is 20th - / 21st-century philosophy- birth place is cherokee , iowa , usa