David Suchoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 2174203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Suchoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Suchoff |
| SIGNATURE | SUCHOFF D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4717-0384 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring barriers and opportunities in industrial hemp through NLP on social media
Industrial hemp stakeholders face diverse and complex challenges in cultivation and processing. Platforms like YouTube have become vital spaces for farmers, processors, and supply chain managers to share insights and exchange knowledge. This study employs natural language processing (NLP) to analyze YouTube comments, revealing both the challenges and emerging opportunities in the industrial hemp sector. Our research reveals two key findings: (1) …
Beckett's Linguistics: The Digestion of German Philology
This essay considers Beckett's linguistics as a redemption of otherness, suggesting new sources for his well-known motif of digestion and expulsion from the German tradition. Watt as well as his postwar French are shown to signal a swallowing of Goethe on Beckett's part, and his notion of “das Fremde” as digested foreign origins. Beckett's poetics of ingestion are read in the context of his “Gnome,” a foreign voice both native to national literat…
Displaced Philologies
The Seductions of Biography
The Hidden Rabe: Kafka's Openings and Beckett's Cage
This essay explores the ways Kafka's transnational perspective works underground in Beckett's texts and mediates his move to French. The banning of Kafka's books in Germany, where Beckett spent parts of 1936–37, and Molloy (born “from my mother's arse”) are seen as Beckett's creative identification with the expelled. Moran's inability to digest the “Lager” in Molloy, and the visit of “Gaber”—anagrams “Rabe,” the Kafka/crow that escapes the “Grabe…
Dissonant Lineages: Adorno, Beckett, Blanchot, Kafka, Rosenzweig
This essay explores linguistic dissonance in Adorno and Beckett as a dismantling of “Sprachontologie,” and the excavation of buried lineage as a principle of literary influence in Molloy. The first section exposes the connections between Adorno's notes for his “Unnamable” essay and his 1933 Singspiel, “The Treasure of Indian-Joe,” with its pre-Beckettian vision of the canon formed through plunder that “gives birth astride a grave.” The second sec…
The Legacy of German Jewry
Kafka's Jewish Languages: The Hidden Openness of Tradition
This essay connects Kafka's German and his Jewish linguistic sources, and explores the trans-national perspective on literary tradition they helped him create. I begin with a critique of Deleuze and Guattari's view of Kafka as a minority writer, showing how their cold war nationalism scants the positive contributions that Yiddish and Hebrew made to his work. I continue with an examination of the "twilight of containment," when this postcontempora…
Kafka and the Postmodern Divide: Hebrew and German in Aharon Appelfeld's The Age of Wonders (Tor Ha-pela'ot )
Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and the Scandal of Jewish Particularity
"A More Conscious Silence": Friendship and Language in Thoreau's Week
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, Thoreau tells us as he relates the borrowing of an ax to found his cabin at Walden, perhaps is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow men to have an interest in your enterprise.'1 project of Walden, promising to take the writer to the necessaryjof life (7), and at the same time to make him matutine, capable of pure origin like the morning, begins already in debt. All poets and heroes, like …
Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and the Scandal of Jewish Particularity
The Hidden Rabe: Kafka's Openings and Beckett's Cage
This essay explores the ways Kafka's transnational perspective works underground in Beckett's texts and mediates his move to French. The banning of Kafka's books in Germany, where Beckett spent parts of 1936–37, and Molloy (born “from my mother's arse”) are seen as Beckett's creative identification with the expelled. Moran's inability to digest the “Lager” in Molloy, and the visit of “Gaber”—anagrams “Rabe,” the Kafka/crow that escapes the “Grabe…
Dissonant Lineages: Adorno, Beckett, Blanchot, Kafka, Rosenzweig
This essay explores linguistic dissonance in Adorno and Beckett as a dismantling of “Sprachontologie,” and the excavation of buried lineage as a principle of literary influence in Molloy. The first section exposes the connections between Adorno's notes for his “Unnamable” essay and his 1933 Singspiel, “The Treasure of Indian-Joe,” with its pre-Beckettian vision of the canon formed through plunder that “gives birth astride a grave.” The second sec…
"A More Conscious Silence": Friendship and Language in Thoreau's Week
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, Thoreau tells us as he relates the borrowing of an ax to found his cabin at Walden, perhaps is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow men to have an interest in your enterprise.'1 project of Walden, promising to take the writer to the necessaryjof life (7), and at the same time to make him matutine, capable of pure origin like the morning, begins already in debt. All poets and heroes, like …
Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and the Scandal of Jewish Particularity
Kafka and the Postmodern Divide: Hebrew and German in Aharon Appelfeld's The Age of Wonders (Tor Ha-pela'ot )
The Legacy of German Jewry
Kafka's Jewish Languages: The Hidden Openness of Tradition
This essay connects Kafka's German and his Jewish linguistic sources, and explores the trans-national perspective on literary tradition they helped him create. I begin with a critique of Deleuze and Guattari's view of Kafka as a minority writer, showing how their cold war nationalism scants the positive contributions that Yiddish and Hebrew made to his work. I continue with an examination of the "twilight of containment," when this postcontempora…
The Hidden Rabe: Kafka's Openings and Beckett's Cage
This essay explores the ways Kafka's transnational perspective works underground in Beckett's texts and mediates his move to French. The banning of Kafka's books in Germany, where Beckett spent parts of 1936–37, and Molloy (born “from my mother's arse”) are seen as Beckett's creative identification with the expelled. Moran's inability to digest the “Lager” in Molloy, and the visit of “Gaber”—anagrams “Rabe,” the Kafka/crow that escapes the “Grabe…
Dissonant Lineages: Adorno, Beckett, Blanchot, Kafka, Rosenzweig
This essay explores linguistic dissonance in Adorno and Beckett as a dismantling of “Sprachontologie,” and the excavation of buried lineage as a principle of literary influence in Molloy. The first section exposes the connections between Adorno's notes for his “Unnamable” essay and his 1933 Singspiel, “The Treasure of Indian-Joe,” with its pre-Beckettian vision of the canon formed through plunder that “gives birth astride a grave.” The second sec…
The Seductions of Biography
Beckett's Linguistics: The Digestion of German Philology
This essay considers Beckett's linguistics as a redemption of otherness, suggesting new sources for his well-known motif of digestion and expulsion from the German tradition. Watt as well as his postwar French are shown to signal a swallowing of Goethe on Beckett's part, and his notion of “das Fremde” as digested foreign origins. Beckett's poetics of ingestion are read in the context of his “Gnome,” a foreign voice both native to national literat…
Displaced Philologies
Exploring barriers and opportunities in industrial hemp through NLP on social media
Industrial hemp stakeholders face diverse and complex challenges in cultivation and processing. Platforms like YouTube have become vital spaces for farmers, processors, and supply chain managers to share insights and exchange knowledge. This study employs natural language processing (NLP) to analyze YouTube comments, revealing both the challenges and emerging opportunities in the industrial hemp sector. Our research reveals two key findings: (1) …
Art (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Franz Kafka Literary Studies (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · German (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 works)