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 #2404AI Agent Metaphors | 2404
Like the Metaverse, history is repeating itself with zero contact with the last time a lot of smart people had conversations about AI Agents.
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EPISODE #2403Where is the Time? | 2403
I like many millennials, believed I didn’t need a watch because since the year 2000 I always had a mobile phone with me.
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EPISODE #2402Internet Escape Velocity | 2402
You know how in the Persona games the main characters get sucked into the television? Internet Escape Velocity is the opposite.
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EPISODE #2401New Noise | 2401
Permanently Moved returns for Season 11 in 2024! New creative goals require new creative endeavours.
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EPISODE #2340EOY 2023 | 2340
As is tradition, here are all the episodes that didn’t get made in 2023, and a little note about Season 11 and 2024
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EPISODE #2339Autonomous Worlds: Misusing The Money Machine | 2339
Exploring blockchain’s shift from finance to creating games in digital universes. A look at this tech’s new role in gaming and virtual worlds.
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EPISODE #2338Episode 250 | 2338
Holy crap 250 episodes! Reflecting on the shows growth, creative enjoyment, making the zine, and future endeavours.
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EPISODE #2337Like We Did In Y2K | 2337
The cultural and tech comeback of the Y2K era. Old trends shaping the state of the post vibe shift Internet.
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EPISODE #2336Why Don Quixote is So Great | 2336
Unpacking ‘Don Quixote’s timeless narrative, linking its chivalric setting to modern fan fiction and intellectual property debates.
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EPISODE #2335Solarpunk, Cybertruck | 2335
The Cybertruck of 2035 will be a mundane part of everyday life. Most of the stuff around us today – is going to still be…
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EPISODE #2334Worlds Resemble Other Worlds | 2334
Worlds resemble other worlds and we adopt world(view)s when we recognise them. Some worlds we have agency in, others we don’t.
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EPISODE #2333Presence in Worlds | 2333
What’s the difference between experiencing Presence and Immersion in a world? Or in techno-social systems of any kind?
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EPISODE #2332In A Playful Way | 2332
I’m going to try my best to approach making the show in a more playful way. A change in creative position or approach.
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EPISODE #2331Season 10! | 2331
Permanently Moved will be celebrating its 250th episode during this next run of 10 shows. I’m looking forward to achieving that!
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EPISODE #2330Tend Soil | 2330
In the boundless ocean of the social seas, where ides and winds whip fleeting trends, the Artist must make sanctuary.
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EPISODE #2329Audience not Algorithm | 2329
The game is over and we’ve all lost. We now have a fractured mediascape with smaller audiences and limited opportunities for growth.
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EPISODE #2328The Book of Silicon | 2328
I think much of contemporary AI and Internet criticism fits into three categories, two of which are based on short stories by Luis Borges.
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EPISODE #2327World(view) | 2327
Written down this way, world(view) suggests that the world is outside of – and much bigger – than any single perspective of it from…
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EPISODE #2326Nobody Clicks Links Anymore | 2326
Earlier this week I had the misfortune of accidentally opening a link to a website in google chrome on my phone.
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EPISODE #2325The Rise of Co-Play: The Future of Multiplayer Software | 2325
I regret to inform you, for better or worse, the future of societal coordination and maybe even politics will emerge from gamer culture.
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EPISODE #2324There is a Well of Words Within You | 2324
I am not done writing about why you should start a dairy. This is a companion to Episode 2020: Stale Yesterdays
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EPISODE #2323Threads, Carnival and the Bazaar | 2323
Thread’s, like every other social network will end up full of the same anti-culture sludge that Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter already are.
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EPISODE #2322The Delamination of the Elite | 2322
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport doesn’t know anything about culture, media or sport
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EPISODE #2321Over the Line | 2321
Alright then. The next block of 10 begins – This is Season 9, Episode 1.