01 // Currently in production
An audio-only essay podcast from the frontier of digital culture. Written, recorded and edited by me since 2018.
permanentlymoved.online
A long-running audio essay show about digital culture, internet culture, and the changing shape of the web.
The show explores internet culture, artificial intelligence, worldrunning, and the shifting tides of social media — life lived online in the shadow of the stack, and what all of that does to the way we live and think.
Regularly in the iTunes Top 100 personal journal charts in countries around the world, and once at number one.
02 // Two eras of the show
One show, two very different shapes. The first run was a stopwatch; the second takes its time.
Exactly 301 Seconds
For its first run, Permanently Moved was a weekly essay show exactly 301 seconds long. Five minutes and one second, every week, for three hundred and one episodes.
Any given episode might explore an aspect of the internet and how it changes us; stories about long-dead saints and why they matter; or the existence of a wild crisp conspiracy in the heart of UK supermarkets.
Tightly scripted, yet nakedly transparent about the creative process. A small, sharp thing you could finish before the kettle boiled.
The Long Way Round
The show has changed pace and scale. It is now a quarterly release: longer-form, and more willing to take the long way round.
Episodes are still tightly written, but with more space for detours, context, and the odd obsession to fully unfold.
Each new episode arrives alongside Start Select Reset, its print companion — an essay in the post four times a year, with an introduction and afterword that don’t exist in the audio.
03 // In the charts
A small independent audio essay show, surprisingly well travelled.
In January 2020 Permanently Moved broke into the iTunes UK Top 50 Personal Journal podcasts chart for the first time; only 43 places behind 301’s bête noire Desert Island Discs.
It has since appeared in the Top 50 podcast charts in countries including Brazil, South Africa, and Sweden. In January 2023 it reached #1 in Personal Journals in Iceland — a small but very pleasing moment for an independent audio essay podcast.
04 // Newest episode
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EPISODE #303INTERNET OPERATOR
Social media as theatre: a long-form audio essay about puppets, profiles, avatars, AI, and how identity is animated online.
05 // Every episode
The full archive, newest first. More than three hundred episodes since 2018.
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EPISODE #1933Organisational Memory | 1933
Inside any institution there are 5 kinds of Organisational Memory.
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EPISODE #1932Temporary Total Institutions | 1932
Introducing the idea of a Temporary Total Institution, as a counterpoint to the (thankfully) diminishing interest in the Temporary Autonomous Zone.
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EPISODE #1931Saints & Souls | 1931
All Saints Day and a brief history of The Christian Cult of The Saints. All Souls Day, and the need to stay with the…
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EPISODE #1930The Laughing Man (A Ghost Story) | 1930
My ghost story. As a child I was terrorised by the spirit ‘The Laughing Man’. What I did about it was my first act…
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EPISODE #1929Inspiration and Setting Bigger Goals | 1929
Still thinking on the same thread as last week about being inspired by other people in my life, and wanting to do more ambitious…
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EPISODE #1928Back From Krakow | 1928
I just got back from Unsound Festival 2019 in Poland yesterday. I talk about the panel and talk I did, and some of the…
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EPISODE #1927Every Week | 1927
This weeks show is just me sitting down talking about stuff I want to talk about. Which is basically what this show is anyway.
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EPISODE #1926Ritual and Storytelling | 1926
Our ancestors would struggle to see mythology as separate from ritual.
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EPISODE #1925To Do List | 1925
I’ve come back from holiday and trying am trying to get back into the swing of things. Tackling my To Do List.
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EPISODE #1924Start Select Reset Zine | 1924
I would like to announce that I’m starting a new zine called Start Select Reset. The first issue ‘Your attention is sovereign’ is out…
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EPISODE #1923Words Words Words | 1923
Writing, How much effort a creative practice requires, The need to tell our own stories, and be supportive of one another.
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EPISODE #1922The Internet Isn’t All One Thing | 1922
Half articulated thoughts on Waldenponding, literal content and UX verticality, the demands of the attention economy and why return to the Isles of blogging.
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EPISODE #1921Spider-Man’s MCU No Deal Webxit | 1921
Cultural Fracking and fandom being dispossessed of their stories by private interests.
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EPISODE #1920Episode 50 | 1920
Episode 50! A nice round number seems like a good time to review where I am at. I discuss how the show has evolved,…
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EPISODE #1919From Blake’s London to Air to Surface Missiles | 1919
The anatomy of an info binge. William Blake > Tennyson > 20th C Anglo-sphere Public Policy > Keplar > Lana de Terzi > Pearson’s…
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EPISODE #1918Fortnite World Cup Explained (For Boomers) | 1918
This week I try to explain the 2019 Fortnite World Cup and its significance (for Boomers).
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EPISODE #1917What Would Your Teenaged Self Think Of You? | 1917
My birthday just passed. No better time for reflection on what my teenaged self might think of me now, and who he became?
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EPISODE #1916Complicity | 1916
As time passes I am becoming more and more aware every time I interact with social media that I am complicit.
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EPISODE #1915In (+) Through The Looking Glass | 1915
Through The Looking Glass: Two psychomanteum techniques for increasing your ability to interact with the liminal and the imaginary.
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EPISODE #1914[Media Property Name] Isn’t Your Friend | 1914
We need anti trust laws for culture. What are we to do when our cultural heritage is owned by a corporation?
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EPISODE #1913The Most Forgetful Man In England | 1913
Reverend George Harvest, Rector of Thames Ditton was so forgetful he forgot to turn up to his own wedding twice!
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EPISODE #1912The Anthropogreen | 1912
The Anthropogreen – A new geological epoch defined by the outcome of a different sort of human intervention upon the earth.
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EPISODE #1911Dark Forest Internet | 1911
I think things are better in the dark forest, but theres a catch: Friends shouldn’t let friends go into the woods alone
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EPISODE #1910Palisades | 1910
I went to see the band Mineral play at The Dome in Tufnell park last night. It’s the second time i’ve seen them now