Peter Conrad (academic)

Peter Conrad (born 1948) is an Australian-born academic specialising in English literature, who taught at Christ Church at the University of Oxford. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Quotes New York is more now than the sum of its people and buildings. It makes sense only as a mechanical intelligence, a transporter system for the daily absorbing and nightly redeploying of the human multitudes whose services it requires. The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York (New York: Oxford UP, 1984), ch. 13 The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and prised open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again. Down Home: Revisiting Tasmania (London: Chatto & Windus, 1988), pt. 5: "Seeing Tasmania" Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. Down Home (1988), pt. 6: "In the Family" External links