Abstract:
The concept of polycracy is beset by a number of paradoxes: it designates a
form of political rule in the absence of such rule. In such circumstances, a
multiplicity of social formations, economic and financial agencies and
operational functions install themselves anomically at local level and extend
independently of and beyond policy and legislation. In doing so, they split and
supplant frameworks of the state and of political and societal institutions. This
article sets out to trace the lineages of the concept of polycracy and its
instantiations in a system of rule that involves a process of political destructuring. More specifically, the question explored here is what takes place in
the destroyed political space and what takes its place in the unbounded state of
the Nazi dictatorship.
