Rockstar Games is a video game publisher famous for its immersive and highly detailed action-adventure titles set in America, thanks to two main franchises, Red Dead Redemption Grand Theft Auto. This article explores how employs the location play elements of Auto V (2013), title that has now generated over $6 billion worldwide sales, critique American culture, politics, lifestyle. Presented by ...

I present a theory of dreams and long term memory structure that proposes that both entities are closely related. It is based on a variation of Freud's dream theory: (1) I re-label Freud's "Unconscious" the “Long Term Memory Structure” (LTMS), (2) I propose that dreams are ever present excitational responses to perturbations of perceptions and thought, during waking life as well as sleep, which...

This article reviews three recent books on the EU: T.R. Reid’s The United States of Europe:The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy (Penguin, New York, 2004); Mark Leonard’s Why Europe will Run the 21st Century (Fourth Estate, London, 2005); and Jeremy Rifkin’s The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream (Tarcher/Penguin, New York, 2...