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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

From the latest Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission to a small West London gallery, an experimental release on an independent label to Gwyneth Paltrow’s celebrity lifestyle brand, the aesthetics of our time are becoming increasingly olfactory. But, in an age of masks, who is really picking up the scent?
Michael John sits down to talk with Laurence Scott — author of The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of living in the digital world — about the erosion and universality of celebrity culture, economic claustrophobia, the nature of an ever-present digital past and the prophetic powers of The Simpsons. (Photograph: Jean Baudrillard — Saint Clement, 1987)