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

  • Vale Anthony Bourdain

    This city is the self-proclaimed centre of democracy, science, and culture. Unlike many other self-proclaimed centres, though, this one’s claims tend to be borne out…

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  • in transit

    My head knows what time zone I’m meant to be in, but my body has no idea. I’ve reset all my clocks, but apparently it…

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  • rolling

    It’s been ten years since I owned a bike. I started, as so many kids do, with a little BMX, then around my late teens…

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  • downstream

    The disc for the Windows 95 operating system shipped with two music videos: Edie Brickell’s Good Times and Weezer’s Buddy Holly. These two videos were included to…

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  • dust to dust

    I’ve attended three memorial services this year. March isn’t over yet. Annihilation is one of my favourite books, and I can’t tell you why. It’s…

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