omniharmonic“It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note. It’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.” — Miles Davis
omniharmonic is a research and writing project by Benjamin Life exploring how fragmented modern systems might achieve polyphonic coherence — not the imposed harmony of a conductor forcing consensus, but the emergent harmony of a jazz ensemble where each player’s improvisations create something none could achieve alone. This wiki is its public knowledge base: a growing library of essays, interconnected concept pages, and project documentation spanning bioregional governance, regenerative economics, cosmolocal production, and the cultural shifts that make them possible.
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Writing
- A Regenerative Accelerationist Manifesto — Technology, ecology, and post-capitalist futures
- Citizen — A vision for participatory governance and civic infrastructure
- Fork You! — On forking governance and building plural civic systems
- Compost Capital or Die — Transforming extractive capital into regenerative wealth
- When Democracy Dies — Recursive sovereignty and bioregional alternatives
- Collapse, Parallel Societies, and the Bioregional Imperative — Building parallel systems as institutions fail
- The Emergence of the Well-Being Economy — Beyond GDP toward flourishing as the measure of progress
- Civic Vibe Coding Localism — AI-assisted tools for community self-determination
Browse all essays in the Writing section.
Concepts
- Bioregionalism — Ecological boundaries as natural units of governance
- Cosmolocalism — What is heavy is local; what is light is global
- Polycentric Governance — Nested decision-making at the scale of impact
- Commons Governance — Shared stewardship without capture
- Metamodernism — Post-postmodern worldview embracing paradox and complexity
- Regenerative Economics — Economic systems that restore and renew
- Meta-Crisis — The interconnected web of civilizational crises
- Interbeing — Fundamental interconnectedness of all phenomena
Browse all 88 concepts in the Concepts section.
Projects
- OpenCivics — Civic innovation and participatory democracy
- Localism Fund — Participatory grant funding for place-based work
- Regen Commons — Regenerative commons coordination