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Elisabeth Yanagisawa Avén

Doctoral Student

The Design Unit
Mail
elisabet.yanagisawa@hdk.gu.se
Visiting address
Kristinelundsgatan 6-8
Göteborg
Postal address
Box 131
40530 Göteborg

About Elisabeth Yanagisawa Avén

PhD-student at HDK-Valand, Artistic Faculty, Design.

Public Defense September 18, 2026 with the thesis: 'Complicity, Affect and Non-Representation – Reading Deleuze in Japanese Aesthetics'.

Keywords: aristic research, affect theory, Japanese aesthetics, artistic processes, non-representation, intuition, body-mind, aliveness, sense knowledge, beauty, sensibility, Deleuze, rhizomatic thinking, The Fold, Logic of Sense, Spinoza, New Materialism, Kūkai, yūgen, iki, Kuki Shūzo, wabi, sabi, ma, immanence, complicity, mathesis universalis, holographism.