Our issue is about presence, but we could, with no shift in meaning, say it’s about absence. We are dominated by what we are missing. Presence defined not as a binary with absence, but as only coming into being with absence: this was something conceivable in the fall of 2019 but is so fundamental in 2022 that it appears to mark an epochal shift. It threads through our essays as it has shaped the experiences of our lives. - https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2022/12/01/the-co-presence-of-absence-and-presence/