Permanently Moved is an audio-only essay podcast from the frontier of digital culture; written, recorded and edited by @thejaymo since 2018.
Produced since 2018, Jay Springett’s podcast Permanently Moved is a long-running audio essay show exploring digital culture, internet culture, and the changing shape of the web; regularly appearing in iTunes Top 100 rankings around the world for its category.
For its first run (2018–2025), Permanently Moved was a weekly essay show exactly 301 seconds long. 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, it was a small, sharp thing you could finish before the kettle boiled.
Now 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. These days the show explores internet culture, artificial intelligence (AI), 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.
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; and in January 2023 Permanently Moved reached #1 in Personal Journals in Iceland, a small but very pleasing moment for an independent audio essay podcast.
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GPT Job Losses: Slowly, Then Suddenly | 2513
AI boosters on LinkedIn will have you belive AI will be taking everyone’s job tomorrow, but the anti-AI voices however still say…
Episode Archive
Thus Spoke The Plant | 1902
Thus Spoke The Plant Is the most important book I’ve read this century. Gagliano needs a Nobel
1000mph 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…
Acts 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.
Remove 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…
General Ludd | 1828
Luddites were opposed only to technology ‘hurtful to Commonality’/ What are the wide frames of today? which bits of the stack need…
The 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’…
One 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.
The 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…
Your Attention Is Sovereign | 1824
Your attention is sovereign – You, personally, get to decide where you put your attention.
A 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…
Handprints and Maps | 1822
I criticise blockchain thinking, then talk briefly about John Barrell’s notion of Circular Geography.
Get 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…
Don’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…
Stella Maris Iterum | 1819
Nostalgia? A folk festival, the Horizon, and a weeping virgin. The shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow in Broadstairs.
Mise en place | 1818
Thinking out loud about Genius Loci, Kitchens, Workshops, Desks, Mise en place and Knolling.
Fragments | 1817
The round idea model was developed by Walter Bossier. Fragments, collaging. I’ve been doing some eclectic reading this week.
Waypoints | 1816
Post birthday reflections delivered whilst melting in my flat. I talk a bit about medium term goals and how I navigate my…
Speed Gibson | 1815
Suffering Wangdoodles! Speed Gibson is one of my favourite all time radio adventure stories – I hope it’s now yours too!
Celestine V | 1813
724 years ago today, nine weary, stubborn men met yet again in conclave. They elected a hermit emaciated and he became Celestine…
1812 – 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…
In 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…
BOYA | 1810
This week i bring back Tech Support to talk about some browser extensions I’ve been trying for dealing with my social media…
Remembrance | 1809
Last week, my family and I traveled to Lijssenthoek Cemetery in Belgium to commemorate 100 years since my great-grandfather’s death.
Rambles | 1808
I actually tried to see how fast I could record and edit this week considering how I now have my workflow kinda…
Procrastination | 1807
Eugh what a drag to get this done today! Thanks for listening everyone! Please stick with me, really not feeling this one.
Abracadabra | 1806
A quick chat about how I’ve been making this thing, and my up coming talks and GoogleDocs Dictation Feature.
Experience (Pt1) | 1805
We should always try to speak openly and honestly with one another about how we experience the world.
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…
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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