Decoding/recoding? : on value transfer and the obviews

Abstract

Imagine yourself in a green chamber: a room, in which every single piece of furniture, the walls, the floors, and all other objects are of precisely the same shade of green. Armchairs, tables, television sets, pictures on the walls, window panes—even the shadows cast by (identically) green bulbs are of the same color as everything else inside. Your eyes are helpless. Devoid of any sense of certainty, you will clumsily grope about to avoid painful collisions with objects ‘that are in the way (...)