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

Orbital mechanics

March 3, 2024

“A MIND is a sort of star-chart in reverse: an assembly of memory, conditioned response, and past action held together in a network of electricity…
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Operation Tech Revival, Part 3

February 26, 2024

Read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. Part 3: Give me my MacBook back, Mac. 2012 was a big year. The motherland had the…
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Operation Tech Revival, Part 2

February 23, 2024

Read Part 1 here. Part 2: Mmm, Pi. A few years back I bought a Raspberry Pi 3B+, with the intention of using it as…
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Operation Tech Revival, Part 1

February 22, 2024

Part 1: A little history, a soupçon of memories I had planned this week to post something very different, but in light of the way…
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Godzilla: King of the Franchises

February 14, 2024

If you like what’s going on here at The Clockwork Penguin, if you appreciate the cut of my particular jib, as it were, buy me…
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