Tiempo Animal y Ecocrítica: Una Visión Ecoevocéntrica de la Coexistencia en la Naturaleza

Dancizo Toro Rivadeneira

Authors

Dancizo Toro Rivadeneira Universidad Internacional de la Rioja

Keywords:

ecocriticism, animal time, ecoevolutionary processes, technocentrism

Abstract

This article examines the concept of animal time from an ecoevocentric perspective within the framework of ecocriticism. Through an interdisciplinary approach, it analyzes how organisms, especially animals, shape and adapt to their temporal environment, challenging anthropocentric and technocentric notions of progress and chronological control over nature. Ecosystem temporality is understood as a multidimensional aspect, biologically modified through phenological, symbiotic, and semiotic interactions, rather than as a preconfigured, homogeneous, and linear entity. Through the concept of time, an ecoevolutionary critique of human interventions that desynchronize ecological rhythms is developed, advocating for an ethic ecosystem that prioritizes biodiversity conservation and preserves ecoevolutionary processes.

Author Biography

Dancizo Toro Rivadeneira, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja

Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2022), con formación en Biología Evolutiva, Biología de la Conservación y Epistemología de las Ciencias y Literatura. Su trabajo se centra en la relación entre ecología, evolución, estética y representación científica. Ha sido investigador en el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid (CSIC) y la Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR), donde actualmente estudia la intersección entre ecocrítica y poéticas del ecosistema. Además de su producción académica, es autor de libros de poesía, en los que explora la conexión entre naturaleza, tiempo y lenguaje.

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