Presence is a relation between what-is-present and someone-who-is-presented with what-is-present.
Presence is the circle of heightened awareness flowing from actor to spectator and back that sustains the dramatic world.
Presence is that in whose historical transformation orderability is surely the last possible phase.
Presence is proximity. The deconstruction of 'presence' requires a distancing called 'the trace'.
Presence is a demand made by this moment now to take responsibility for it, because every single living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. Presence demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility.
Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.
Presence is form-as-event: The convergence of event (a contingent action) and form (a movement, the unity of a distinction, that we want to see continued).
Presence is both the making present of oneself in the presence of others, and the making present of others in one's own mind.