Temporalized power arose first in eighteenth and nineteenth century bourgeois society.

Evidence

Solutions possessing such a degree of structural elaboration are, of course, historically conditioned and dependent on many factors. They presuppose not only a guaranteed monopoly on making decisions about physical force, but, in addition, also assume a sufficiently complex relationship between the societal system and time. If future and past are to appear as different types of present, the differences between modes of time must be used from more than just a power-oriented viewpoint for the reconstruction of social complexity – a possibility which was first realized in the bourgeois society of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 712

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Giddens’s historically-situated account of expert systems and trust in modernity - both treat modern institutions as historically novel forms of complexity management. — connects to: Perceptions of accelerating time began around 1750, before industrialization. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 106