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

  • 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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  • scopeX

    video experiment… [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD79cCD9f1Q] part of research, I guess? It’s a process.  

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  • 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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