Zapping, like television itself, is a source of distraction. Zapping is a program itself, that can be followed with a minimal dose of concentration, like any other channel. Winkler frequently draws on the debates about the new medium film from the beginning of this century. Switching produces something of the amazement and estrangement felt by film-goers well into the Twenties, when the film theatre still resembled a continuous revue that provoked a wealth of reactions among the spectators. The element of one's own film as anti-pole returns in switching.
Revenge is taken on the continuity of passive reception.
You drop out, disregarding the unity of the story. A technical expression of the disinterest in greater significance. The telecommander has given the TV recipient a means of leaving the program and striking back, without giving up the medium or its reception. Winkler relates the amazement evoked to the shock caused by various editing techniques. The hermetically experienced world falls apart and the loose parts again acquire a material character .