Joel Katelnikoff

Joel Katelnikoff holds a PhD in literary theory from the University of Alberta. His book Recombinant Theory is a new approach to critical writing that applies cut-up techniques to the complete works of ten contemporary poet-theorists: Annharte, Charles Bernstein, Christian Bök, Johanna Drucker, Lyn Hejinian, Steve McCaffery, Erín Moure, Sawako Nakayasu, Lisa Robertson, and Fred Wah. These cut-ups are then compiled into new essays, each refracting the concepts of the original text while producing new lyrical and theoretical formulations.