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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More Distant Than Ever | 2514
Growing up in Britain in the 1990s, America felt like a country that existed only on television and in toy boxes. A…
Episode Archive
Temporary Total Institutions | 1932
Introducing the idea of a Temporary Total Institution, as a counterpoint to the (thankfully) diminishing interest in the Temporary Autonomous Zone.
Saints & Souls | 1931
All Saints Day and a brief history of The Christian Cult of The Saints. All Souls Day, and the need to stay…
The Laughing Man (A Ghost Story) | 1930
My ghost story. As a child I was terrorised by the spirit ‘The Laughing Man’. What I did about it was my…
Inspiration and Setting Bigger Goals | 1929
Still thinking on the same thread as last week about being inspired by other people in my life, and wanting to do…
Back From Krakow | 1928
I just got back from Unsound Festival 2019 in Poland yesterday. I talk about the panel and talk I did, and some…
Every Week | 1927
This weeks show is just me sitting down talking about stuff I want to talk about. Which is basically what this show…
Ritual and Storytelling | 1926
Our ancestors would struggle to see mythology as separate from ritual.
To Do List | 1925
I’ve come back from holiday and trying am trying to get back into the swing of things. Tackling my To Do List.
Start Select Reset Zine | 1924
I would like to announce that I’m starting a new zine called Start Select Reset. The first issue ‘Your attention is sovereign’…
Words Words Words | 1923
Writing, How much effort a creative practice requires, The need to tell our own stories, and be supportive of one another.
The Internet Isn’t All One Thing | 1922
Half articulated thoughts on Waldenponding, literal content and UX verticality, the demands of the attention economy and why return to the Isles…
Spider-Man’s MCU No Deal Webxit | 1921
Cultural Fracking and fandom being dispossessed of their stories by private interests.
Episode 50 | 1920
Episode 50! A nice round number seems like a good time to review where I am at. I discuss how the show…
From Blake’s London to Air to Surface Missiles | 1919
The anatomy of an info binge. William Blake > Tennyson > 20th C Anglo-sphere Public Policy > Keplar > Lana de Terzi…
Fortnite World Cup Explained (For Boomers) | 1918
This week I try to explain the 2019 Fortnite World Cup and its significance (for Boomers).
What Would Your Teenaged Self Think Of You? | 1917
My birthday just passed. No better time for reflection on what my teenaged self might think of me now, and who he…
Complicity | 1916
As time passes I am becoming more and more aware every time I interact with social media that I am complicit.
In (+) Through The Looking Glass | 1915
Through The Looking Glass: Two psychomanteum techniques for increasing your ability to interact with the liminal and the imaginary.
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[Media Property Name] Isn’t Your Friend | 1914
We need anti trust laws for culture. What are we to do when our cultural heritage is owned by a corporation?
The Most Forgetful Man In England | 1913
Reverend George Harvest, Rector of Thames Ditton was so forgetful he forgot to turn up to his own wedding twice!
The Anthropogreen | 1912
The Anthropogreen – A new geological epoch defined by the outcome of a different sort of human intervention upon the earth.
Dark Forest Internet | 1911
I think things are better in the dark forest, but theres a catch: Friends shouldn’t let friends go into the woods alone
Palisades | 1910
I went to see the band Mineral play at The Dome in Tufnell park last night. It’s the second time i’ve seen…
Never Tried To Put A Cat In A Box | 1909
Schrodinger has never tried to put cat into a box. Plus: Meditation is one of the only true weapons you have available…
Unfolding (Experience Pt2) | 1908
You don’t enter this world as a spark of consciousness, you emerge from it.
Chernobyl | 1907
Reflecting on the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Things I remember from the visit I made to the site in 2011.
Lord of the Rings is better then Game of Thrones | 1906
Lord of the Rings is better than Game Of Thrones. The significance of sailing to the west and its place in the…
A Bit Of A Blur | 1905
Update on a few things going on in my life, A film recommendation and a comment on Dune. Total SNAFU’d when recording…
May You Live in Interesting Times | 1903
A brief history of the aphorism “May you live in interesting times” and a little about what we can do about it.
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