This lecture proposes a conception of governance as a quintuple co-constitution of measures, actors, networks, practices, and underlying orders, in which none of the five dimensions is privileged over the others, and the focus lies instead on their polycentric combination. This interdisciplinary synthesis draws on law (for measures), political science (for actors and networks), anthropology (for practices), and sociology (for underlying orders). The motivation is to transcend legalism, rationalism, and structuralism in a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the complexity of societal regulation.