Az organikus nyelvi megmutatkozása – Nemes Nagy Ágnes: Napforduló • The Appearance of the Organic in Language – Ágnes Nemes Nagy: Solstice

access to the biological automatism of breathing not only involves the experience of being mediated to our own body, but also that the very act of breathing, which is part of the acousticphysiological process of speech, is modified by the changes of rhythm.Continuing Derrida's line of thought, this may therefore be the point where grammatology and pneumatology enter into a reciprocal relationship, where writing-or techné-with its finite units modifies bios or the rhythm of breathing.The function of speech therefore seems to be in contact with breathing even when we are not confronted with the self-reflexivity of speaking about breathing, acting against or even disconfirming this biological automatism.Both seem to be evident in Ágnes Nemes Nagy's poems Defend It and Breath, while the volume Solstice contains several other poems closely related to the present context.The intersection of speech and breath, however, also carries the possibility of mutual exclusivity, with the audibility of voice making the audibility of breath impossible and vice versa-speaking about breathing makes breathing inaccessible.The outflow of air during speech makes visible the tangential boundaries of pneumatology and grammatology, and the embeddedness in language thus deprives the process of its automatism through writing.Breathing, on the other hand, can be accessible through language; as an organic automatism, we are only confronted with its inaccessibility.