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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Newest Episode
No-Go London | 2515
Over the last few months I’ve been having a conversation with someone about why, exactly, “London is over/a bleak woke dystopia”
Episode Archive
Midsummer | 2024
If you have a tin helmet, or even a tin foil hat. I’d strap it on tight. Also Fairies and Love Spells.
How Does Software Make You Feel? | 2023
Pleading, demanding, hopefulness and rejection. These are the emotional responses that the mechanics of twitter arises in me.
Front 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…
Ascension Day 1932 | 2020
A simple ceremony at the top of my Grandad’s world in St Peter’s in Thanet, 1932.
Animal Crossing Is The Place For Taste | 2019
Grammars of Virtual Worlds and the demonstration of taste within the constraints of the toy box that is Animal Crossing
I Gotta Get Organised (Getting Visionary) | 2018
I wrote a list in my notebook that I still need to add too. But there’s a bunch of things on it…
ALL HAIL THE MAY QUEEN! | 2017
May Queens and Maypoles, The politics of crowing a queen in ones community
No Approval Needed | 2016
I’ve always thought that living is a process of learning how to feel. There’s no point in chasing that feeling, you should…
Observing The Square | 2015
Then there are the dogs, so. Many. dogs. The true highlight of the view from the window. They are all good boys.…
Craving Canon (Redux) | 2014
Further explorations on ‘canon’. Protestantism, Atheist Boomers, Aliens 3, Frozen, Jesus Fan Fiction and the great 1054 Christian Rage Quit.
There Is A Bleep In My House | 2013
There is a bleep in my house. It started in the dead of night 3 weeks ago at the beginning of lockdown.
The Run Out | 2012
Covid-19, Landslides and Avalanches, The Run Out, Accelerationism, Post Post Modernity.
![Peasants & Plague [Huw Lemmey] | 2011](https://thejaymo.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/301-Square-Cover-2011-720x720-jpg.webp)
Peasants & Plague [Huw Lemmey] | 2011
Peasants! Plague! Radical Cults! Class Politics! Huw Lemmey is guest presenting this week. He is the host of the hit podcast Bad…
Living In A Time Of History | 2010
The Pandemic is coming… The longue durée, paying taxes after pestilence, boomers, ancient greeks, make art when the time ghost is at…
Spark Joy | 2009
Time for spring cleaning, Marie Kondo’s magic, Acts of God and The Less is more future.
Role For A Thought Leadership Check | 2008
How DnD, Stats and Simulation may have fucked up modernity.
Warhammer 40,000 | 2007
Nothing had prepared me for the world of Warhammer 40,000. Space Marines are psychopathic lunatics who like to call each other brother…
Clock Time vs Plot Time | 2006
The Greeks of course have words for these ideas. Anno Domini is Chronos. And the time and place that we are embedded…
Sounds Like It’s Synthwave | 2005
A veiled moan about procrastination, Brexit, and introducing the new podcast theme for 2020!
Landscapes Like Mixtapes | 2003
I want to say to a friend halfway around the world who’s with me in a simulation: Come with me, I made…
Crying Whilst Meditating | 2002
Your body processes buried emotions that until that moment you have no idea that you have been carrying around. For the most…
Outside Of London | 2001
The event horizon that is the M25 means that people in London confuse national political news for local news.
EOY 2019 | 1938
Well, that’s this year done. 38 episodes. Nearly every week from when I restarted after my travels in early 2019.
We Are Just At That Point In The Timeline | 1937
It’s just Us, Capital and the Fash. Written the day after Labours election defeat of 2019, reality, and Brexit.
December Points | 1936
Listing some bits and bobs, and catching up on a few things that have happened recently in December as my brain is…
![Midsommar vs The Buddha [Andrew Dana Hudson] | 1935](https://thejaymo.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/301-Square-Cover-1935-720x720-jpg.webp)
Midsommar vs The Buddha [Andrew Dana Hudson] | 1935
This episode is guest hosted by Sci-Fi writer, Andrew Dana Hudson. He talks about Mediation, Arm Raising, Class Struggle & How Will…
Depression (CW) | 1934
We have so many words to accurately describe and confirm the world around us but fall short when we reach for words…
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