IVO VELITCHKOV AND JOHN GRANT
Cohesion Spectrum v.2 – by Ivo Velitchkov and John Grant
MAY 03, 2026
In all socio-technical systems, there is a tension between autonomy and cohesion. Every system finds a way to deal with this tension, or it collapses if it fails to do so for long.
This essay is part of the Autonomy and Cohesion series, which includes an earlier one-dimensional version of the Cohesion Spectrum.