Jason Leclerc

Born in Washington, D.C., just days before the Nixon resignation, something in the aura–was it tragedy or new beginning–has stuck on Jason like a gritty film that drips onto everything he does. Jason grew up in Daytona Beach, a beach-rat, saxophone player, and high-school cheerleader. From there, he was off to Tallahassee then Boston then Orlando for continuing formal education. All the while, he has been writing–poetry and essays mostly–as he travels America and the world. Jason’s most recent move to Tampa, Florida confirms that he is a citizen of the I-4 corridor, and a visitor of the world’s skyways, highways, and beltways. Jason writes under the digital avatar, PoetEconomist, and has used his first published work, MOMENTITIOUSNESS, as a new form for sharing the universality of his experience in a deeply intimate yet academic way.

The creative outlet for Jason’s critical method, Semiotic Arbitrage, finds life in his writing spaces. In The Poet-Economist poetry space, he strives actively to root out the sublime between the synapses in language. Jason stands firmly against ideology, including the ideology of rationality that has supplanted the individual with the rules of science. The Semiotic Arbitrage space is a bit more involved. Jason explodes dense poetry into essayistic flaneurism. Semiotic Arbitrage is the trading of ideas or symbols–taking advantage of those symbols’ relative weaknesses and strengths– among (at least three) different people or groups to gain what he considers “cultural profit.” It allows us to look at issues or moments–instead of on a binary continuum–as a multiplanar scatterplot. No more right or wrong, right or left, Conservative or Liberal. It allows us to replace the “or” with “and.”

Bachelor's Degrees: Accounting, American Studies.

Master's degrees: Economics, Literature.

ABD: English concentration Texts and Technology.

Have had jobs as: Financial Manager, Construction Company Economist, Political Consultant, Night Club owner, Software consultant, University Adjunct, Author.

Visit Jason's website: http://www.momentitiousness.com

Join Jason on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MOMENTITIOUSNESS

Follow Jason on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jleclercauthor

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7714471.Jason_Leclerc