Permanently Moved

Jay Springett
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An audio essay podcast about digital culture, internet culture, artificial intelligence and the changing shape of the web. Written, recorded and edited by Jay Springett since 2018, the show explores social media, games, online communities, world-running and life in the shadow of the stack. Part personal journal, part cultural analysis, episodes explore technology, media and life online.

  1. Aug 11

    Episode 303: Internet Operator

    Who-or what-are you online? A profile, handle, podcast, avatar, or AI persona can be addressed, remembered, praised, criticised, and made socially present. But it is not quite identical to the person behind it. This episode of Permanently Moved is an hour-long audio essay on digital identity, personal branding, social media, puppetry, platform culture, and AI. It argues that online identity is best understood not as performance or authenticity, but as animation: a figure brought to life through an operator, audience, and apparatus. Moving from The Brand Called You and main character energy to Bunraku theatre, VTubers, icons and idols, automata, platform metrics, and ChatGPT, Jay Springett asks what it means to be responsible for a figure online without being consumed by it. SHOW NOTES https://thejaymo.net/2026/08/11/303-internet-operator-permanently-moved/ START SELECT RESET Issue 16 of Start Select Reset, the print companion to this episode, contains the full essay plus extra material not included in the audio. Membership (£5/month, shipping included): https://thejaymo.net/support/ Buy the zine while copies last: https://thejaymo.net/zine CHAPTERS (00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:06) DRAMATIS IDEAE (00:02:20) Part 1. The Brand Called You (00:09:34) Part 2. Main Character Energy (00:16:21) Part 3. Figure and Function (00:20:42) Part 4. The Booth and the Stage (00:26:43) Part 5. The Suppressed Metaphor (00:32:16) Part 6. The Animated Equation (00:38:25) Part 7. The Face, the Mask, the Person (00:40:47) Part 8. Metonymy, Icon, Idol (00:46:16) Part 9. The Self-Moving Figure (00:53:25) Part 10. Where the Operator Stands (00:58:24) Part 11. The Speaking Image (01:04:34) Part 12. Internet Operator (01:08:03) Afterward (01:08:44) Support the Show (01:09:29) Credits Mentioned in this episode Tom Peters — "The Brand Called You" Teri Silvio — Puppets, Gods and Brands Kevin Munger — "The YouTube Apparatus" Henryk Jurkowski — Aspects of Puppet Theatre Charles Taylor Heinrich von Kleist — "On the Marionette Theatre" Mindar at Kōdai-ji ChatGPT Gordon White Permanently Moved is a quarterly podcast written, recorded, and edited by Jay Springett.

    Episode 303: Internet Operator

  2. Mar 2

    Episode 302: Monsters In The Mirror

    What are large language models, really? A genuinely different frame for what AI is, where it came from, and what it means to live alongside it. This episode of Permanently Moved is an hour-long audio essay on artificial intelligence, agency, and the history of computing that made LLMs possible. The essay moves from the invention of the mirror to double-entry bookkeeping, the printing press, the Manhattan Project, the transistor, and the particular civilisational strangeness of ChatGPT and its successors. It argues that the question everyone is asking about AI "is it intelligent?" is a trap, and it tries to ask a better one.  START SELECT RESET Issue 15 of SSRZ, the print companion to this episode, is available to pre-order now until Monday 16th March. 36 pages, A5, containing the full transcript plus an introduction and afterword not in the audio. Membership (£5/month) shipping included: https://thejaymo.net/support/ Pre-order the zine (£18 + shipping): https://thejaymo.etsy.com/uk/listing/4465040020/monsters-in-the-mirror-start-select CHAPTERS (00:00:02) Introduction (00:00:34) Monsters In The Mirror (00:01:00) Part 1. The Mirror of Modernity (00:05:33) Part 2. The State's Gaze (00:11:28) Part 3. Paper Truths (00:17:27) Part 4. Crystal Fire (00:26:13) Part 5. The Silicon Mirror (00:31:54) Part 6. World(view) in the West (00:35:28) Part 7. Haunted Habitats (00:40:45) Part 8. Thinking Machines (00:49:28) Part 9. Abracadabra (00:54:26) Part 10. Monsters in the Mirror (00:59:03) Afterward (01:00:05) Support the Show (01:00:48) Credits Mentioned in this episode Tyson Yunkaporta — Sand Talk James C. Scott — Seeing Like a State Marion Fourcade & Kieran Healy — The Ordinal Society Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo — Exocapitalism Marshall McLuhan — The Gutenberg Galaxy Walter Ong — Orality and Literacy Jean Baudrillard — Simulacra and Simulation Nick Land — Fanged Noumena Monica Gagliano — Thus Spoke the Plant Benedict Anderson — Imagined Communities Bayo Akomolafe Gordon White — Rune Soup Permanently Moved is a quarterly podcast written, recorded, and edited by Jay Springett.  --- SHOW NOTES https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/02/302-monsters-in-the-mirror-permanently-moved/ FIND EVERYTHING ELSE thejaymo.net: https://thejaymo.net/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

    Episode 302: Monsters In The Mirror

  3. Mar 2 ·  Bonus

    Pre-Flight: The New Container

    Permanently Moved is back! Six months of silence, time in a chrysalis, and now a changed format. This is the wake-up episode. Before Episode 302 drops in your feed, Jay explains what happened after finishing the biggest creative project of his life — and what the show looks like from here. Permanently Moved is now quarterly. Four audio essays a year, longer and more considered. Less treadmill, more terrain. And for the first time, each episode comes with a print companion: a physical zine, posted to you as part of your membership. Episode 302 - Monsters in the Mirror - is next up in the feed. THE ZINE Each episode of Permanently Moved now comes with an accompanying issue of Start Select Reset. Issue #15 is a 36-page A5 zine - properly printed, thick covers - containing the full transcript of Monsters in the Mirror plus an introduction and afterword that aren't in the audio. Pre-orders are open for two weeks. After that it goes to print. Membership (£5/month) shipping included: https://thejaymo.net/support/ One-off pre-order (£18 + shipping): https://thejaymo.etsy.com/uk/listing/4465040020/monsters-in-the-mirror-start-select --- FIND EVERYTHING ELSE thejaymo.net: https://thejaymo.net/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

    Pre-Flight: The New Container

  4. 07/26/2025

    Episode 301

    8 years, 15 seasons; 301 episodes; over 25 hours of audio and roughly 290,000 words of script. 301 Permanently Moved was begun at age 32 and completed today, the day after I turned 40. One fifth of a lifetime, distilled into a body of work. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/26/2520-episode-301/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

    Episode 301

  5. 07/19/2025

    Landing Sequence

    As a nearly complete project, this show represents an enormous amount of effort and discipline. It's been a serious creative commitment. Sustaining any single format for eight years is achievement enough for me. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/19/2519-landing-sequence/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

    Landing Sequence

  6. 07/12/2025

    King of Mind

    The glowing screen does not possess you. You merely have rehearsed the reflex of the infinite scroll. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/12/2518-king-of-mind/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

    King of Mind

  7. 07/05/2025

    It's Beginning to Feel a Bit Like The Future

    We must attempt to reclaim some proximity to the future. We have to stop strip-mining yesterday and act as though the future is already here. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/05/2517-its-beginning-to-feel-a-bit-like-the-future/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

    It's Beginning to Feel a Bit Like The Future

  8. 06/28/2025

    Tales Untold

    It is the graft that reveals the craft.  Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/06/28/2516-tales-untold/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

    Tales Untold
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An audio essay podcast about digital culture, internet culture, artificial intelligence and the changing shape of the web. Written, recorded and edited by Jay Springett since 2018, the show explores social media, games, online communities, world-running and life in the shadow of the stack. Part personal journal, part cultural analysis, episodes explore technology, media and life online.

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  • Creator
    Jay Springett
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    308
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Permanently Moved