There is a watercolor-like stain on the back cover and the bottom edge. Other than that, the text is clean. Price: 1,650 yen (tax included) From the official website: Feature: Metaverse - Artificial intelligence, virtual currency, VTubers... The future of evolving virtual spaces [Discussion] Dialogue on the future of the body / Dominic Chen + Noboru Yasuda [Invitation to a New World] Transformation of human consciousness through the metaverse / Yoichiro Miyake Thinking about "Metaverse" from its origins / Chigusa Kita [This Body, This Universe] The metaverse becoming matter and its limitations - Considering gender and politics from the bodies and spaces that move between the metaverse and the outside / Ginga Kondo Summary: "Ba-niniku: What Lies Behind Virtual Performance - Countering Gender Norms Through Technology and Japanese Theater" / L. Bredikhina (Translated by Soma Ikeyama) Beautiful girls as metaphors - Gender trouble caused by animation-like misallocation / Yu Matsuura Is the metaverse "iki"? - The aesthetics of awkwardness / Yuki Nanba How can avatars live fulfilling lives in the metaverse / Yusuke Nagato [Political Economy of Utopia] Metaverse and virtual society / Takehiko Daikoku Digital ownership based on scarcity and exclusion vs. the metaverse / Kenji Saito Repairing and maintaining the universe - Can the metaverse become the universe we live in? / Takehiko Yoshida [The Future of Days Gone By] I want to go to Paris - Or, "I can't get out of here" / Minoru Niki Metaverse in 1984 / Satoshi Kizawa Nostalgia for "cyberspace" - How virtual reality was spoken of / Yumezo Kato Cultural technology and computers / Takuya Umeda [The Coming Sphere of Thought] Where does the memory of "I definitely lived in that game world before" come from? - Metaverse = a suspended consciousness model / Yukio Gunji Pegio Metaverse media theory - The ecology of the universe of information and its mathematics and ethics / Yoshihiro Maruyama Metaverse as the present world / Yasuo Deguchi [Series ● Overcoming "Post-War Knowledge" ● 20th] How Kojin Karatani asks about "World History" 3 - Its "Origin" and "Structure" / Ryuichi Narita [Series ● Society is Alive ● 3rd] Ecology of the Subject 1 - The Transforming Subject, the Constraining Society / Yusuke Yamashita [Series ● Sociology of Timing ● 20th] Exhaustion, Part 1 - Long Commutes / Takesho Ishioka