Should Androids Go to School?
Should Androids Go to School?

Author(s): Predrag Krstić
Subject(s): American Literature
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Androids; school; novel; humanism; Philip K. Dick’s; education Series; posthumanismseries; AI in education; androids at school; anti-humanism; humanism; posthumanist education; transhumanism;
Summary/Abstract: Our title is a somewhat arbitrary variation on Philip K. Dick’s (1968) novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Yet, it is no glib retort. It occurred to us that the possibility or privilege of education, education as schooling, might be considered both the differentia specifica between humans and androids, and a lens through which other differences can be gleaned. Wondering about why androids are excluded from education, we are simultaneously seeking to think the border between them and humans, examining our visions of androids and ourselves. Speaking strictly from the point of education as a discipline, the figure of the android – non-human, yet humanoid – allows for, perhaps better than anything, an educationally-inflicted and punctuated critique of humanism, as well as a discussion of its (in)justifiability.

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