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

  • Pomodoro ramblings

    In my first classes this week, I introduced first-year students to the Pomodoro technique. I’ve had a mixed relationship with the technique, but sometimes find…

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  • Studio teaching

    Some random observations and things to try after three semesters of teaching the studio model… Put together comprehensive assessment briefs, with marking criteria Use ticksheets/feedback…

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  • Stoker (2013)

    I’ve frequently maintained that the best films stay with you. I don’t mean ‘best’ in terms of quality, necessarily — though that helps — but…

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  • Vale Hunter Cordaiy

    Hunter Cordaiy passed away in Nice, France, on the 13th of January, 2016. Hunter was born in Sydney on 20 April 1950. In his 65…

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