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

  • Re-framing the frame

    ‘Framing is a position of thinking.’ – Daniel Frampton, Filmosophy, p. 125. As previously alluded to, I’m in the very strange process of having to think…

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  • 7 February 2010

    Thoughts from the elder Moleskine: ‘When I was a child, I thought as a child acted as a child, spoke as a child… but when…

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  • A Thursday

    She’s laughing at an in-joke with herself about everyone on board; She’s engrossed in her book; He has his headphones in, openly staring at each…

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  • Topical verbiage

    ditch / rearrange / apply / reprioritise

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  • My weekend, in film

    As you will have gathered on Friday, I put together a rather formidable schedule of film viewing. This was partly due to the need to do a…

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