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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  • Godzilla: King of the Franchises

    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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  • Swings X Roundabouts

    Originally I was going to post some condensed form of this to socials, but I thought some may be interested in an extended ramble and/or…

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  • This algorithmic moment

    A robot dressed like a monk is meditating, looking out over a mountainous landscape.

    So much of what I’m being fed at the moment concerns the recent wave of AI. While we are seeing something of a plateauing of…

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  • Push the button for a sweet treat

    I had grand plans of posting something about Godzilla today, but that will have to wait for these delightful rats. These tiny furry folx learned…

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  • The handmade internet

    A fragment from random notes over the last few days, weeks… There seems to be a return to an idea, philosophy, or practice of “just…

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