We are not in the King Charles III Space Station this week. We are in Harriet Green’s sister station, which is a less reliable bit of lore but a more useful studio. Into it comes Mat Dryhurst: English conceptual artist, Berlin resident, collaborator with Holly Herndon, co-founder of Spawning AI, and the rare guest willing to tell Anglofuturism that Greek statues of ourselves might be a sign of stuckness rather than civilisational vigour.Why Greek statues in the space station might be a symptom of Anglofuturist stucknessStrange Rules in Venice and the end of art as a separate autonomous categoryMichael Levin, two-headed worms, and why everything starts to look like a communication protocolKen Stanley, PickBreeder, and why greatness cannot be plannedAston Villa, the Europa League, and why old forms stop meaning what they once meantInstagram and the infinite feed as the actual cultural event of the past 20 yearsOman banning advertising and the politics of cognitive securityThe Call, choirs, consent, and participatory AIWhy Bauhaus was not a look, and why commissioning “a future aesthetic” misses the pointProgressive elitism, Channel 4, Chris Morris, and institutions taking punts before the public asks for themThe new weirdos who look normal until they start talking about prediction marketsSpawning AI, machine-readable permissions, and why copyright is too small for model cultureThe 30-year question: which low-status interaction now becomes the future’s obvious value layer?