Affect Alien

'[T]he family sustains its place as a
"happy object"
by identifying those who do not reproduce
its line as the cause of unhappiness.
I call such others
"affect aliens"'.

Sara Ahmed, 'Happy Objects'
in Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth (eds.)
The Affect Theory Reader
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010)
p. 30

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Not, of course, to be confused with
Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse's
Resident Alien​.

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But definitely to be confused with
​'Happy House'
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Kaleidoscope​, Polydor, 1980

Don't ever forget:
'There's room for you if you say "I do",
​but don't say no or you'll have to go'