RaveThe Skinny (UK)Murata has risen to even more bizarre heights, revealing modernity’s pernicious system of human commodification and social control with disturbing, visceral clarity ... Murata is a master at fostering an almost unbearably unsettling mood: her dialogue, translated by frequent collaborator Ginny Tapley Takemori, is self-consciously unnatural, an uncanny simulacrum of human interaction that signposts the falseness that Murata sees in human relationships under capitalism ... Tinges of dark humour notwithstanding, Earthlings makes for unpleasant reading that at times borders on the excessive, yet given the state of our world, Murata can hardly be blamed.
