The Violence of Indifference: Adiaphorisation and Disability
摘要
This chapter examines how moral indifference toward disabled people is produced, justified, and sustained through the processes Bauman identifies as adiaphorization. Building on the previous chapters’ analyses of power and modernity, it traces how solid modernity’s gardening culture enabled the moral distancing that marked disabled people as expendable, culminating in the T4 extermination programme and the wider eugenic rationalities of the twentieth century. It then turns to liquid modernity, where older bureaucratic suspicions persist but are joined by new forms of automated and market-driven indifference. Throughout the chapter, adiaphorization is explored as both a structural and cultural process through which disabled people become objects of bureaucracy. In mapping the solid and liquid forms of this moral distancing, the chapter shows how indifference, rather than overt hostility, has become one of the most pervasive forms of violence disabled people face.