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

  • the freshness of being

    I couldn’t stop watching it. Again. Like, the film is two hours and forty fucking minutes long. It’s also been a solid two years or…

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  • Housebound

  • Notes on a theme

    It’s happened again. I hit a certain point, usually every twelve months, sometimes sooner, where I get annoyed with my WordPress theme. This layout for…

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  • Inhuman Screens

    I am thrilled to announce that I’ve been invited to present at the inaugural Inhuman Screens conference, convened in conjunction with Sydney Underground Film Festival. I’ll…

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  • the daily DAN

    as part of current writing work, I’m going to *attempt* to create a video a day for the next fortnight (at least). they will be…

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