The Clockwork Penguin

Daniel Binns is a media theorist and filmmaker tinkering with the weird edges of technology, storytelling, and screen culture. He is the author of Material Media-Making in the Digital Age and currently writes about posthuman poetics, glitchy machines, and speculative media worlds.



The Archives

  • Why can’t you just THINK?!

    “Just use your imagination” / “Try thinking like a normal person” There is this wonderful reactionary nonsense flying around that making use of generative AI…

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  • Clearframe

    An accidental anti-productivity productivity system Since 2023, I’ve been working with genAI chatbots. What began as a novelty—occasionally useful for a quick grant summary or…

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  • More than words

    For when I need to show rather than tell, I set up a thing.

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  • A question concerning technology

    There’s something I’ve been ruminating on and around of late. I’ve started drafting a post about it, but I thought I’d post an initial provocation…

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  • How I broke Claude

    In one of my classes last week, we talked about glitch — both as a random accident of technology and as an art aesthetic and…

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