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.
Paid supporters receive my eternal gratitude and Start Select Reset 📑 via snail mail 4 times a year;
a physical essay zine posted worldwide.
Quarterly zine; my gift to you ✉️
Newest Episode
Tales Untold | 2516
It is the graft that reveals the craft.
Episode Archive
All Your Shorts Are Bestonk to Us | 2104
The simple explanation of the Gamestonks debacle is a user behaviour that sits at the heart of the internet’s psyche – The…
Thinking Out Loud | 2103
Maybe ideas don’t come fully formed, instead they are a sequence of ideas that pour out of you one after another in…
In The Archipelago | 2101
Imagine being on a boat, looking out over the waves, waiting for the future to appear over the horizon.
OffCuts | 2049
A rundown of some of the episodes and topics of 301 Permanently Moved that could have, but didn’t get made this year.
NanoWrimOver | 2048
Lessons learnt from participating in this years NanoWriMo, and thoughts on staying with a creative moment for as long as possible.
The Weather On Social Media | 2047
On the internet, Everything happens so much. But you don’t need to stand out in the rain to know it’s raining.
Conduits To A King | 2046
A brief overview of the use of puppets in the 18th century Royal Court of Myanmar
NanoWriMo | 2044
How NanoWriMo helped me come to terms with my dyslexia and to put one word after another.
About Doin’ | 2043
I have a Solarpunk short story coming out in the e-anthology ‘And Lately, The Sun’ next month!
Sleeping Lions | 2042
The tip of its tail flicks unbeknownst to the cat. Its inner world betraying the stillness of its body. Just like our…
Going Soapless | 2041
In the abstracted hell world of 2020 it is more important than ever that we all reconnect with our bodies. Consider going…
Abstract Objects | 2040
Coding python, pythagorean cult visualisation exercises, code loops, empirically felt variations in experience, and psychedelic technology criticism.
Beyond 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…
St 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…
Corporate Folklore | 2037
Strange idiosyncratic weirdness in organisations, database admins are worse than 40k Tech-Priests, Corporate Folklore, Narrative Strategy, FML Numbers, and more.
From Medway To Miami | 2033
Folktales are localised in landscape. The land wraps itself around a story like a blanket.
Episode 100 | 2031
A nice round number seemed like a good time to review. I discuss how the show has evolved, workflow, stats, “Perfectionism is…
How To Make An Episode Of 301 | 2029
How To Make An Episode Of 301 Permanently Moved by Jay Springett
Do You Remember MSN? | 2028
From 2020 looking back, my memories of MSN Messenger feel like one long slow motion panic attack.
My Media Ecology | 2027
Art x Advanced Technologies, Growing Up a Punk, Trauma Talks and Interdependence
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