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V. Bühlmann, G. Prof. Lambert:
"Introduction Lecture + Guest Talk five: Prof. Gregg Lambert";
Talk: ATTP Guest Talk Series, ATTP, TU Wien; 2017-11-01.

REFLECTIONS ON A SILURIAN LAKE:
LUCRETIUS, MEILLASSOUX, AND LEOTARD

At this point, let us return a few millennia to our Epoch of his majesty the Ego called the Anthropocene, which many humanists have taken up as a critical perspective in order to "de-center" the anthropocentric presence of the Subject in its opening to the material universe. This de-centering operation usually involves a supplanting of the Subject by absence, which often assumes the form of a speculative thesis involving time on a planetary or even paleontological scale, as in the case of Quentin Meillassoux´s arche-fossil (Meillassoux, After Finitude, 2008). Thus, absence is no longer determined in relation to "consciousness of," as in phenomenology, but rather in terms of the "not yet, or the no longer" of the Subject.
The question that concerns us is "what," or rather, "where is time," or more specifically, whether the theme of time and temporality could even be possible.

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_266115.pdf