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 Adrian Miles Reading List

    I and many others in the RMIT community are struggling to find ways to deal with the loss of our dear colleague and friend Adrian…

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  • Romance and reflection

    There is a mode of writing about film that I really enjoy reading — I’m cautiously calling it romantic-reflexive. Practitioners of this style include Murray…

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  • Another one bites the dust

    I received this text message today, and it made me sad. I lived in Katoomba for a couple of years while I was working on…

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  • The world is so unutterably boring

    Sometimes it’s the movement. Just the movement. As the light hits a blade of grass, or a leaf — something that’s completely out of a…

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  • Dunkirk (2017)

    David Cox’s no doubt controversial take on Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has spurred me to writing, and not, as you might think, to leap to the film’s…

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