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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Pre-Flight: The New Container | Permanently Moved
I’m emerging from a chrysalis. Six months since I finished 301, and closed the loop on the biggest creative project of my…
Episode Archive
Cathedral of Screens | 2421
Apple wasn’t just selling products; they were selling a vision, a glimpse into what the world could be. But now we’re in…
A Menagerie of AI Models | 2420
I’ve come to think of the collection of tools I use as a kind of menagerie of models. I thought I’d share…
Shaping Thought | 2419
The games designer seeks to influence the structure of thought. Manipulating the kinds of thoughts the player thinks while playing the game.
Six Feet of England | 2418
I don’t think there is a single place in England that I know better than those 6 feet of sand in font…
Hole of Tears | 2416
Ivan, lost in the chaos of modern life, takes a walk by the river seeking solace. A modern fairy story.
First Person Memory | 2415
Due to my SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory), I never remember anything in the first person. This is why I keep a…
The Origins of Modern Bureaucracy | 2414
| Where did modern bureaucracy come from? Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, the Father of the Military Academy, or the ‘man who made West…
Conflict of Disinterest | 2413
We should abandon the external ‘Battle for Attention’ and instead engage in an internal ‘Conflict of Disinterest’
Surface Flatness | 2412
Don’t you think that the surface of the Internet feels super flat right now? I don’t just mean it’s UX but the…
Little Computer People | 2411
Right now AI is the worst it’s ever going to be. It costs about £60 a day to house a little computer…
Algorithmic Pressure | 2410
People I hang out with online all at once seem to have begun questioning the necessity of weekly creative production.
Short Term Thinking | 2409
I propose that everything that occurs between the decision to plant a tree and the full expression of its canopy is short…
React + Re-Consume | 2408
Reaction videos were (and still) are considered ‘low effort’. At worst a parasitic grift. Leveraging the creative work of others for social…
Going Deep | 2407
Tetris players have gone so deep, and become such powerful wizards, that they can avoid the end of the world.
My Todolist Over Time | 2406
The moment I finished editing this week’s show about Cal Newports Slow Productivity, I realised to my horror that I’d made it…
Little Wars of the Worlds | 2405
A review of HG Wells’ Little Wars. The book that changed the way tabletop wargames were played, and paved the way for…
AI Agent Metaphors | 2404
Like the Metaverse, history is repeating itself with zero contact with the last time a lot of smart people had conversations about…
Where is the Time? | 2403
I like many millennials, believed I didn’t need a watch because since the year 2000 I always had a mobile phone with…
Internet Escape Velocity | 2402
You know how in the Persona games the main characters get sucked into the television? Internet Escape Velocity is the opposite.
New Noise | 2401
Permanently Moved returns for Season 11 in 2024! New creative goals require new creative endeavours.
EOY 2023 | 2340
As is tradition, here are all the episodes that didn’t get made in 2023, and a little note about Season 11 and…
Autonomous Worlds: Misusing The Money Machine | 2339
Exploring blockchain’s shift from finance to creating games in digital universes. A look at this tech’s new role in gaming and virtual…
Episode 250 | 2338
Holy crap 250 episodes! Reflecting on the shows growth, creative enjoyment, making the zine, and future endeavours.
Like We Did In Y2K | 2337
The cultural and tech comeback of the Y2K era. Old trends shaping the state of the post vibe shift Internet.
Why Don Quixote is So Great | 2336
Unpacking ‘Don Quixote’s timeless narrative, linking its chivalric setting to modern fan fiction and intellectual property debates.
Solarpunk, Cybertruck | 2335
The Cybertruck of 2035 will be a mundane part of everyday life. Most of the stuff around us today – is going to…
Worlds Resemble Other Worlds | 2334
Worlds resemble other worlds and we adopt world(view)s when we recognise them. Some worlds we have agency in, others we don’t.
Presence in Worlds | 2333
What’s the difference between experiencing Presence and Immersion in a world? Or in techno-social systems of any kind?
In A Playful Way | 2332
I’m going to try my best to approach making the show in a more playful way. A change in creative position or…
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