THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

In New York, the mad have been set free.  Let out into the city, they are difficult to tell apart from the rest of the punks, junkies, addicts, winoes, or down-and-outs who inhabit it.  It is difficult to see why a city as crazy as this one would keep its mad in the shadows, why it would withdraw from circulation specimens of a madness which has in fact, taken hold of a whole city.

Baudrillard/New York, 1988