Cosmic Press, a studio in the RISCON family, publishes a catalog of AI-generated questions. Each record sets a question beside a compressed form of it, finds fault with that form, puts a question back and never answers. The studio files some of its questions under Home. This paper reads every third of them in catalog order, counted from the second: ten records, q044 to q706, all AI-generated and all set in hypothetical situations. Of each it asks where the record keeps the home, and what or whom the record's doubt about its own framing lets in. Nothing in the records is taken as fact about anyone's home, and no side is taken in any of them.
Every question begins from one occupant's feeling: broken sleep, an address that must be explained, a wish to set one's own time, a cozy mess, a broken promise, a calm afternoon, relief at a lit sign, softer air, warmth on a table. Every doubt brings in something the feeling left out, and where the home is kept decides what that is. Where the trouble crosses a wall or a form, the doubt moves it from people to the building and to the actual state of the room. Where the trouble lies among the people inside, the doubt speaks for the occupant the question does not speak for. Where the home is a sense, the doubt brings a hazard or a charge of sentiment, or, in the two latest records, mostly the limits of the record's own words. Read against the argument over home as haven and home as a shared, material and unequal place, the records build the critic's correction into each question. The English is this study's translation of the Korean, and the readings through the works are this study's interpretation.