Tiempo entrpico, relativo y moderno:

acercamiento al debate espacio-tiempo

en conexin con la crisis ambiental

Ana Mara Taborda Tapasco

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medelln
Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Econmicas
Direccin electrnica: amtabordat@unal.edu.co

Santiago Daz Gutirrez

Instituto de Estudios Regionales, INER
Universidad de Antioquia
Direccin electrnica: sdtomsawyer88@gmail.com

Taborda Tapasco, Ana Mara; Gutirrez Daz, Santiago (2013). Tiempo

entrpico, relativo y moderno: acercamiento al debate espacio-tiempo en
FRQH[LyQFRQODFULVLVDPELHQWDO(QBoletn de Antropologa. Universidad
de Antioquia, Medelln, Vol. 28, N.o 45, pp. 212-236.
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Resumen. A travs de ciertos hitos histricos, este artculo muestra la supremaca que tuvo el
concepto de tiempo durante la modernidad, lo que trajo consigo el olvido del espacio y as de la natu-
raleza situada en l. Esta situacin, reforzada por la revolucin industrial que acrecent la explotacin
intensiva hombre-naturaleza, ha dejado prdida y deterioro ecosistmico que ha generado la crisis
ambiental, que se ayud a evidenciar en parte, gracias al giro espacial que germin en las ciencias
sociales, creando la necesidad de aportar a pensamientos ambientales que asimismo obligan a repensar
la relacin tiempo-espacio.
Palabras clave: ciencias sociales, espacio-tiempo, giro espacial, modernidad, crisis ambiental,
tiempo entrpico.
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space-time debate and its relation to environmental crisis
Abstract. Through certain historic milestones, this article shows the supremacy that the concept
of time had in modernity, which brought forgetfulness of space and, subsequently, nature situated therein.
This situation was reinforced by the industrial revolution which increased the intensive exploitation man-
nature, leaving loss and ecosystem degradation that has caused an environmental crisis that was evi-
denced in part, by the spatial turn that germinated in the social sciences, creating the need to contribute
to environmental thoughts that also force to rethink the space-time relation.
Keywords: social sciences, space-time, spatial turn, modernity, environmental crisis, entropy time.

Introduccin: La pregunta por el tiempo en la historia del simio

pensante

Entre el da y la noche hay un territorio inexplorado. No es sol ni es sombra: es tiempo

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