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

  • 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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  • What a difference…

    Sometimes the gurus get it wrong… it may not be best to ‘mark’ down when you feel like your life is on a trajectory. Since the…

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  • Priorities

    I am lucky to have a job that I love. But in the eighteen months of settling into full-time academia, I seem to have lost…

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