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.

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  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and ‘othering’

    I booted up Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare lastnight, for the first time since its release. I remember enjoying playing through the single-player campaign (I’ve…

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  • New things

    A big couple of months, hence the lack of updates. I’ve taken up a new position as Lecturer in Media at RMIT University. Yes, RMIT…

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  • What is it good for?

    I sunk about two hours into This War of Mine, and feel I’ve barely scratched the surface. As such, what follows are my very rudimentary…

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  • Gone Girl

    Maybe the point of this bizarre story of small-town America and the darkness beneath, is that there is no resolution, for the narrative or the…

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  • Editing

    Rough cut. Draft cut. Polish. Proof render. Final cut. *crack beer* … Changes arrive. Final cut V2. Final cut V3. Export for web.

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