Contemporary authority rarely presents a single identifiable centre. Decisions are distributed across protocols, metrics, platforms, committees, consultants, algorithms, legal departments and automated systems. AuthorityFragment names the political structure produced when command is divided into partial agencies whose individual actions appear limited while their combined effects remain decisive. Fragmentation does not necessarily weaken power; it can protect power from contestation by making responsibility difficult to locate. A platform points to policy, policy points to regulation, regulation points to data, and data appears to have no author. The result is a chain of delegated necessity in which each component claims only partial agency. Naming this dispersed structure is the first political act because critique otherwise searches for a sovereign centre that no longer exists in recognisable form. The task is to reconstruct the relations through which separated decisions aggregate into durable command. Authority becomes legible not by identifying a single ruler but by mapping the interfaces, dependencies and handoffs through which responsibility is continuously fragmented while power remains operational.