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 #1909Never Tried To Put A Cat In A Box | 1909
Schrodinger has never tried to put cat into a box. Plus: Meditation is one of the only true weapons you have available to you…
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EPISODE #1908Unfolding (Experience Pt2) | 1908
You don’t enter this world as a spark of consciousness, you emerge from it.
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EPISODE #1907Chernobyl | 1907
Reflecting on the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Things I remember from the visit I made to the site in 2011.
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EPISODE #1906Lord of the Rings is better then Game of Thrones | 1906
Lord of the Rings is better than Game Of Thrones. The significance of sailing to the west and its place in the modern collective…
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EPISODE #1905A Bit Of A Blur | 1905
Update on a few things going on in my life, A film recommendation and a comment on Dune. Total SNAFU’d when recording of this…
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EPISODE #1904Robert Stephen Hawker | 1904
The life an times of the Priest Mermaid: Robert Stephen Hawker
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EPISODE #1903May You Live in Interesting Times | 1903
A brief history of the aphorism “May you live in interesting times” and a little about what we can do about it.
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EPISODE #1902Thus Spoke The Plant | 1902
Thus Spoke The Plant Is the most important book I’ve read this century. Gagliano needs a Nobel
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EPISODE #19011000mph Club | 1901
There’s a lot get done this year and there is no time to be self critical, 1000mph club or bust. No other options.
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EPISODE #1830Acts of St Andrew | 1830
It’s St Andrews Day, so I thought maybe I could talk about the The Apostolic Romance book The Acts St Andrew.
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EPISODE #1829Remove Excess Salt | 1829
An angry rant about my an opinion on gammons in the media an on tv. I dislike the weaponisation of remembrance day immensely.
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EPISODE #1828General Ludd | 1828
Luddites were opposed only to technology ‘hurtful to Commonality’/ What are the wide frames of today? which bits of the stack need a visit…
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EPISODE #1827The Future Starts Today | 1827
The shift to a multi polar world over the next 30 years, is increasingly likely. The report recognises that the current ‘liberal’ international order…
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EPISODE #1826One Foot Forward | 1826
This Episode contains a brief overview of Unsound Festival and The Beyond Cyberpunk panel I was on with the Cyberpunk 2077 creators.
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EPISODE #1825The Loop | 1825
The Attention Loop is a phenomena emergent in the digital age. What’s worse is it’s highly likely that whatever you were reading wasn’t worth…
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EPISODE #1824Your Attention Is Sovereign | 1824
Your attention is sovereign – You, personally, get to decide where you put your attention.
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EPISODE #1823A Profligate Waste | 1823
This week i’m grumpy about the new Apple phones, Angry about action figures, and call a man who drives a bulldozer a land artist.
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EPISODE #1822Handprints and Maps | 1822
I criticise blockchain thinking, then talk briefly about John Barrell’s notion of Circular Geography.
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EPISODE #1821Get Down On Your Knees | 1821
It started off as a simple show about the great abolitionist Harriet Tubman, but unexpectedly spun out into occult left history, criticism of the…
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EPISODE #1820Don’t Feed The Machine | 1820
The internet broke this week and we had a whole day without it – It was nice. From those beginnings I end up talking…
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EPISODE #1819Stella Maris Iterum | 1819
Nostalgia? A folk festival, the Horizon, and a weeping virgin. The shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow in Broadstairs.
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EPISODE #1818Mise en place | 1818
Thinking out loud about Genius Loci, Kitchens, Workshops, Desks, Mise en place and Knolling.
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EPISODE #1817Fragments | 1817
The round idea model was developed by Walter Bossier. Fragments, collaging. I’ve been doing some eclectic reading this week.
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EPISODE #1816Waypoints | 1816
Post birthday reflections delivered whilst melting in my flat. I talk a bit about medium term goals and how I navigate my life towards…