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

  • All the King’s horses

    I’ve written previously about the apps I use. When it comes to actual productivity methods, though, I’m usually in one of (what I hope are…

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  • Binnsy’s web

    I’m exploring options for shifting this website off WordPress. There are a few different reasons for this. The general thoughts and attitudes of the vainglorious…

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  • Orbital mechanics

    “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

    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

    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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