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: speed

  • Speed and politics

    Need for Speed (d. Scott Waugh, 2015).
    Need for Speed (d. Scott Waugh, 2015).

    Cinema is movement. Movement is change. Change is politics — politics regulates change.

    Movement in the frame is thus political.

    The addition of speed amplifies the political impetus of cinema. Movement is cinema.

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    [It’s okay, I haven’t lost it. These are perfunctory scribblings for upcoming research, that I thought were strangely poetic. Rough thoughts on the disappointingly not-that-disappointing Need for Speed here.]