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

  • Rules

    Taking my first steps in the world of programming, I’ve been intrigued to see that many of the overarching rules for ‘best practice’ and the…

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  • DOMs away

    75% of the way through an Essentials course in JS, and I can’t wrap my head around the DOM. I get the concept, but the…

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  • Entering the matrix

    I’ve found myself frustrated in the last twelve months or so with a few mundane computer tasks that I have to undertake regularly, both for…

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  • In transit

  • Progress

    For those that were concerned, it got better. A few weeks ago, I asked a colleague how everything was going. He replied, ‘I have too…

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