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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It’s Beginning to Feel a Bit Like The Future | 2517
We must attempt to reclaim some proximity to the future. We have to stop strip-mining yesterday and act as though the future…
Episode Archive
Power Fandoms | 2134
With Web3 enabled Permissive IP frameworks, Power Fandoms will own, produce and share the value created by their worlds. They are coming…
A Napster Moment For Collective Storytelling | 2133
Experienced Future shock this week with the launch of three NFT projects: LOOT, The Logged Universe, and Lifeforms. Permissive IPs are coming.…
The Prompt in Interactive Fiction and AI Art | 2132
Sketching out some ideas around the relation between the shared indistinguishable surface of interactive fiction games and using GAN’s to create art.…
10 Years With a Straight Razor | 2131
Since I have been old enough to do so, I’ve hidden my face behind a beard. Shaving with a straight razor requires…
Episode 150 (Sprint Review) | 2130
4 years, 150 Episodes, 12.5hrs of audio, 9 Video Episodes and 160,000+ words of script. ‘Number goes up’ gives you a nice…
Learning Mode | 2129
I’ve been learning new software this week. The Covid brain fog is lifting, and I am experiencing the phenomenon of unspent mental…
Friend to All Nations | 2128
The Lifeboat Service is one of the UK’s only institutions that embodies the notion of the Moral Good. I talk about Margate’s…
Don’t Call It a Comeback | 2127
This weeks show is about the TV show Whats My Line? and the power of Colonel Sanders’ image flowing backward in time.
The Hybrid / Hyper Reality of Worlds | 2126
A conversation with Paul Czege, RPGs, Worlding worlds, and the experiences and memories that we acquire in them.
I’m Talkin’ UAP UAP UAP | 2125
The UFO report, UAPs, the black bird analogy, industry developmental programs, orthogonal innovation, the democrats, and war with china?
Big Feelings Are Like Beads in a Bowl | 2124
Moments of psychic intensity generate ‘Big Feelings’. That we then carry around with us as unprocessed loops that keep us awake at…
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[Guest Episode] The Dark Souls Method | 2123
Author J David Osborne guest hosts 301 this week. He talks Darksouls, Petscop, Gulags and Narrative strategy.
The Experiment – The First Video Episode | 2122
An exciting car cash of an Episode. Over the sound of the wonderful accident I talk about Etsy buying Depop.
The Self Help Section | 2121
You would be surprised by the number of people who come into a book store and need to ask where the self…
The Inmates Have Taken Over the Asylum | 2119
This phrase is powerful anti-worker propaganda that has dominated the public imagination for a century. If we are going to get DAOs…
Anything but the Election | 2118
Making an episode on the election would probably have done some good numbers. But I decided to talk about Babylonian evil sprits…
Brands Are VInfluencers Now? | 2117
If you think brands twitter accounts bantering online is insufferable and weird, just wait till you see what’s coming next.
Have a Nice Day | 2116
The phrase ‘Have a Nice Day’ is not generally used in the United Kingdom due to its perceived insincerity. Besides it’s bad…
Create Something (Every Week) | 2115
Create something every week. Maybe I made an episode about repetition and rhythm in the end anyway?
Kennings & Orbit Words | 2114
Reject the social media literalism that flattens ideas with a label or a name.Let’s dance around the edges of ideas to know…
Sounds Like Home | 2113
Back on the chalk, the characteristics of sounds around my family home have remained the same as if time has flowed around…
Conductors and Coordination | 2112
Coordination online, Soviet Moscow’s First Symphonic Ensemble, Sacred Harp, Gershwin, The Baton, Wands and Alister Crowley.
The Puppets in the Drama House | 2111
I just read a book about Tholpavakoothu. A traditional form of folk shadow puppetry performing the Ramayana practiced in Kerala, South India.
The Kraken in the Social Seas | 2110
Taking your eye off social media even for a moment reveals a greater danger. Deep down in the dark lies the Kraken…
The Phones I’ve Known | 2109
Short reviews of all 10 of the mobile phones I’ve owned and used since I got my first phone in the year…
Will it Fit? But Is It News? | 2108
The new COD game is over 500GBs and may not fit on a base model PS4. Shouldn’t this be like … news…
Solarpunk, Stacktivism and Cold Texas | 2107
The Texas disaster has all the elements of a Solarpunk story.
A Dormant Brand Powered Down | 2106
“Zoom cat filter lawyer passes torch to upside-down budget zordon” and corporate twitter accounts are like Gundams?
The Political Voice as Demonstrated by the Councillors of Handforth | 2105
The Handforth incident reveals an important element of the British or more specially – the English – psyche. The Political Voice.
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