Readings

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The Original Platform: The East India Company
Elisha Lim
Digital Democracies Institute Presentation 
May 3, 2023

Abdullah, N. (2005). Exploring constructions of the "drug problem" in historical and 

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Alaimo, C. (2022). The Role of Boundary Resources in Ecosystem Innovation: A Study of 

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Beckman, Karen Redrobe (2003), Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism, Duke 

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Bogost, I., & Montfort, N. (2009). Platform studies: Frequently questioned answers.


Breman, J. (1992). Controversial Views on Writing Colonial History. Itinerario, 16(2), 39-60.


Browne, S. (2015). Dark matters: On the surveillance of blackness. Duke University Press.


Bucher, T. (2018). If... then: Algorithmic power and politics. Oxford University Press.


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Charters of the East India Company with related documents: the 'parchment records' 1600-1947. 

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Chaudhuri, K. N. (2006). The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company: 

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Choudary, S. “Country-as-a-platform: Why Singapore’s future needs a platform strategy” 

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Crawford, K. (2021). The atlas of AI: Power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial 

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Dalrymple, W. (2019). The anarchy: The East India Company, corporate violence, and the pillage 

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Dixon-Román E., Puar J. (2021) “Mass Debilitation and Algorithmic Governance.” eflux

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