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 #2217Speed Barbie, Racer Knight | 2217
The New Barbie Movie, Cultural Fracking, my aphantasia and why Speed Racer is a much better movie than The Dark Knight
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EPISODE #2216Web Surfin’ UXA | 2216
After you reduce your social media intake. You need to re-learn how to use the Internet.
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EPISODE #2215Travelling Gadgetman | 2215
Coming home on the train I felt a bit like a ‘travelling gadgetman’. A condition that has crept up on me in the last…
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EPISODE #2214Theatre’s Royal | 2214
Have you ever wondered why so many towns and cities in Britain have a building called the Theatre Royal? I have.
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EPISODE #2213From Penny Theatre to Social Media | 2213
TikTtok is like an algorithmically weaponised talent show from the 18th century.
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EPISODE #2212DAOs: Governance vs Coordination | 2212
21st century meme culture and real-time chat have combined in DAOs to create the rolling AGM as a novel participatory form
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EPISODE #2211Collective Endeavours | 2211
One band is a collective endeavour, two bands make a scene.
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EPISODE #2210New App in the Alms Race | 2210
The Alms Race is the financial expansion of Web2 social platforms. Allowing users to earn directly from other users. Web 2.5 if you will.
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EPISODE #2209Things (Un)finished | 2209
With everything going on in the world over the last few years it has felt selfish to work on creative the things that I…
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EPISODE #2208Say.Act.Feel | 2208
A recognition that not one of us knows what the fuck is going on. The past 2 years should have made this abundantly clear.
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EPISODE #2207Inauthentic Internet | 2207
It’s ironic that Boomers spent the 00’s telling kids to not believe everything they read on the internet. Now the situation is reversed.
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EPISODE #2206Aphantasia (Experience pt3) | 2206
I just found out that most of you can just shut your eyes and see a pyramid any time you want? What the hell?!
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EPISODE #2205Rock Fandom | 2205
What subject I wondered, could potentially be more entertaining than Twitter? Without thinking, I typed the words Rock Polishing into Youtube.
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EPISODE #2204One Thing at a Time | 2204
This is by no means a world shattering observation. But have over 50 things on my list of things to do means that I’m…
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EPISODE #2203Some Things to Get Done | 2203
I woke up this morning with no idea what I was going to talk about on the show today. As it turned out, ambitions…
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EPISODE #2202Lost in MySpace | 2202
Upon hearing the MySpace sever news, my first thought was ‘I’m glad all posts and DMs are gone forever’. My second thought was ‘Oh…
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EPISODE #2201The Fear of Finding Out | 2201
The Long Fear. It’s the question in the dead of the night. It’s there when things are going well, it remains unanswered when you…
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EPISODE #2148EOY 2021 | 2148
2021 has been a terrible year, far worse than 2020. There is no point in dwelling on it. The next year will unfold from…
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EPISODE #2147Urgent Anxiety | 2147
The dream about running and not getting anywhere has escaped the night. We are living it.
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EPISODE #2146In The Edit | 2146
Lack of copy editing is extremely transparent to a reader. Editing on the other hand is invisible to the reader, but transparent to the…
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EPISODE #2145Dealing With Procrastination | 2145
The horror as my depression lifted at the beginning of the UK lockdown. It wasn’t depression stopping me. It was something far worse. Me.
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EPISODE #2144St Edmund the Martyr | 2144
In preparation for the rootlessness of England post Union. St Edmund should be retrieved from deep cultural memory.
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EPISODE #2143Do the Things That Need Doing | 2143
The work of body one leaves behind after action, is not left behind in the past. It is a nest of materials that one…
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EPISODE #2142I Ain’t Reading All That | 2142
The other night I had a dream. I opened a letter and read it out loud on camera for this weeks show. What a…