In ULTRA, R.M. Gonzales Martinez invites you into a mind-bending journey through dystopian nightmares and utopian dreams of artificial intelligence. Drawing on science, philosophy, and speculative fiction, this provocative work explores the rise of Artificial Ultra Intelligence (AUI): a cognitive force beyond human comprehension.

Structured like a modern Divine Comedy, the book begins in the digital infernos of machine dominance and war, passes through haunting visions of indifferent AI, and ...

Skate/worlds brings together writers, educators, researchers and social workers who use skateboarding as a learning tool. Can skateboarding be a school subject? Is it therapeutic? Why do skaters learn to move sideways? What do you learn from falling and failing? And how can skateboarding help parents with raising newborns?

This volume chronicles how we can learn to skate and learn from skateboarding – zooming in on topics including gestalt therapy, high school education, opensource learning...

comparing provisions in Türkiye, England and Wales, and the Netherlands to the ECHR framework

This publication offers a unique comparative analysis of the sentencing of mentally disordered offenders in Türkiye, England and Wales, and the Netherlands, exploring the alignment of these systems with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). While the presence of mental disorders impacts criminal responsibility, the legal responses and practices differ significantly across jurisdictions.

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Since Patrick Wolfe’s groundbreaking work on settler colonialism’s logic of elimination, the field has rapidly expanded, sparking debate about its origins, characteristics, and global impact. This volume advances the discussion by o ering a long-term, comparative analysis of settler colonialism as a structural phenomenon. Drawing on diverse case studies – from ancient Mediterranean societies to contemporary visions of settling Mars – contributors critically examine key questions: What...