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

  • Ziggy played guitar

    I can’t remember precisely when I bought The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, but I can definitely remember the…

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  • Awaiting Awakens

    It’s been hard for me to focus today. Technically it’s a work day — the place I work for doesn’t close down for the Christmas…

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  • Bridge of Spies (2015)

    Bridge of Spies is up there with Spielberg’s best.

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  • Whiplash (2014)

    Critics, of all people, are certainly entitled to their opinion. And Richard Brody is by no means an unqualified critic. What Brody’s done here, though,…

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  • The 10th Victim (1965)

    I found The 10th Victim on Letterboxd. I’m not sure exactly how it emerged in my field of view, but probably some crazy collision of Blade…

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