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 #2043About Doin’ | 2043
I have a Solarpunk short story coming out in the e-anthology ‘And Lately, The Sun’ next month!
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EPISODE #2042Sleeping Lions | 2042
The tip of its tail flicks unbeknownst to the cat. Its inner world betraying the stillness of its body. Just like our minds.
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EPISODE #2041Going Soapless | 2041
In the abstracted hell world of 2020 it is more important than ever that we all reconnect with our bodies. Consider going soapless.
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EPISODE #2040Abstract Objects | 2040
Coding python, pythagorean cult visualisation exercises, code loops, empirically felt variations in experience, and psychedelic technology criticism.
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EPISODE #2039Beyond The Last Ad Break | 2039
Television News has no memory beyond the last ad break. Updates on what I’ve got going on, and how a healthier media diet might…
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EPISODE #2038St Thérèse of Lisieux | 2038
Her life, her parents, her sisters and family. The Kaleidoscope clarifies the holy trinity, the ‘Act of Oblation’ working, her poetry, and death.
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EPISODE #2037Corporate Folklore | 2037
Strange idiosyncratic weirdness in organisations, database admins are worse than 40k Tech-Priests, Corporate Folklore, Narrative Strategy, FML Numbers, and more.
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EPISODE #2035Theatre, Applied | 2035
Community building with puppets, performances, food and solarpunk.
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EPISODE #2034Captain Swing | 2034
The 1830’s Swing’s Riots were a disaster for British the working class.
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EPISODE #2033From Medway To Miami | 2033
Folktales are localised in landscape. The land wraps itself around a story like a blanket.
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EPISODE #2031Episode 100 | 2031
A nice round number seemed like a good time to review. I discuss how the show has evolved, workflow, stats, “Perfectionism is the voice…
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EPISODE #2030Past Years / New Gear | 2030
Mid year goal reviews, New Gear, Broken Gear and Two Recommendations.
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EPISODE #2029How To Make An Episode Of 301 | 2029
How To Make An Episode Of 301 Permanently Moved by Jay Springett
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EPISODE #2028Do You Remember MSN? | 2028
From 2020 looking back, my memories of MSN Messenger feel like one long slow motion panic attack.
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EPISODE #2027My Media Ecology | 2027
Art x Advanced Technologies, Growing Up a Punk, Trauma Talks and Interdependence
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EPISODE #2026The Tenth Man | 2026
Toxic Sediment, 20th Century Media, and spelunking for gems amongst it.
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EPISODE #2024Midsummer | 2024
If you have a tin helmet, or even a tin foil hat. I’d strap it on tight. Also Fairies and Love Spells.
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EPISODE #2023How Does Software Make You Feel? | 2023
Pleading, demanding, hopefulness and rejection. These are the emotional responses that the mechanics of twitter arises in me.
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EPISODE #2021Front Of Mind | 2021
This morning I was thinking about what today’s show should be about. Usually, an idea or another will come to mind during the week
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EPISODE #2020Ascension Day 1932 | 2020
A simple ceremony at the top of my Grandad’s world in St Peter’s in Thanet, 1932.