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 #1815Speed Gibson | 1815
Suffering Wangdoodles! Speed Gibson is one of my favourite all time radio adventure stories – I hope it’s now yours too!
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EPISODE #1814Just Updates | 1814
No overall theme this week. Just updates on a few things i’ve been upto.
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EPISODE #1813Celestine V | 1813
724 years ago today, nine weary, stubborn men met yet again in conclave. They elected a hermit emaciated and he became Celestine V.
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EPISODE #18121812 – New Dark Age | 1812
We have terms like the Churn or the Jackpot. In his new book, the artist James Bridle suggests another term: New Dark Age.
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EPISODE #1811In A Time Like This | 1811
Strategies to live through the Kali Yuga: tenacity, and time horizons measured in worm food. The internet is a haunted house, Find the others.
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EPISODE #1810BOYA | 1810
This week i bring back Tech Support to talk about some browser extensions I’ve been trying for dealing with my social media problems.
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EPISODE #1809Remembrance | 1809
Last week, my family and I traveled to Lijssenthoek Cemetery in Belgium to commemorate 100 years since my great-grandfather’s death.
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EPISODE #1808Rambles | 1808
I actually tried to see how fast I could record and edit this week considering how I now have my workflow kinda down.
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EPISODE #1807
Procrastination | 1807
Eugh what a drag to get this done today! Thanks for listening everyone! Please stick with me, really not feeling this one.
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EPISODE #1806
Abracadabra | 1806
A quick chat about how I’ve been making this thing, and my up coming talks and GoogleDocs Dictation Feature.
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EPISODE #1805
Experience (Pt1) | 1805
We should always try to speak openly and honestly with one another about how we experience the world.
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EPISODE #1804
Tech Support | 1804
In this episode I address some feedback, moan about the neighbours, make a few announcements, and begin a new segment called tech support.
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EPISODE #1803
Landship | 1803
There is a rescue mission and a salvage mission. In this one I have thoughts on my Land As Platform project
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EPISODE #1802
Feedback | 1802
I must admit, starting episode two is a lot harder than starting episode one. I address some of the feedback sent after episode 1.
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EPISODE #1801
Episode 1 | 1801
Episode 1 of Permanently Moved by Jay Springett – I assume it’ll get better as i go along