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.

Tag: poetry

  • 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 commuter in turn;
    All the other men are suited, reading their papers or fumbling with technology that was crafted much later than their fingers stopped working;
    There is an amicably animated conversation in French – naturally the phrase “I’m entering the City Loop, I’ll call you back” needs no translation for eavesdroppers.

    [originally put here, photo by me, original here]

  • Topical verbiage

    Keep left. Photo by me.
    Keep left. Photo by me.

    ditch /

    rearrange /

    apply /

    reprioritise