The phrase "about this absence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing or referring to a specific absence, whether it be a person's absence from a meeting, event, or any situation.
Example: "We need to have a conversation about this absence to understand the reasons behind it."
Alternatives: "regarding this absence" or "concerning this absence".
I suggested to Wang that there was something impersonal about this absence of names; she saw it, she told me, as a matter of scientific categories: there's the dog, the lab partner, the shrink, the immigrant parents, the best friend, the cheating husband, the nanny.
As two musicologists write about this absence, "Without music's acoustic balm, all our empathetic attention is on the characters and their state of bewilderment... Music would provide a conceptualization and a catharsis... but a catharsis at this point would in some measure trivialize the loss".
It's probable that someone besides you is worried, annoyed or bothered about this absence.
"While much has been written about the industrial revolution," writes Lawrence Peskin, "we rarely read about industrial revolutionaries". This absence, he explains, reflects the preoccupation of both classical and Marxist economics with impersonal forces rather than with individuals.
But this absence is about more than cricket: it is about the place of sport in wider society, its accessibility and purpose, and about the role of the BBC as a public-service broadcaster, funded by a licence fee - a form of poll tax that fails to take into account people's ability to pay.
We know about this potential absence thanks to a global information chain, one that shadows the supply and manufacturing chain that produces Apple's products.
There was little here about a best friend, and this absence reinforces one possible reaction to the film: that the story of Sophie is perfunctory, and too evidently has the task of framing the portrait of Frances, and of steering the film away from romantic comedy.
Davenport-Hines is disarming about the absence of this essence.
Still there was something genuinely startling this year about the absence of Joe Root from the main shortlist.
(There's something a little sexist about the absence of male performers in this aquatic sequence).
This debate is no longer just about the absence of legal or administrative impediments.
