The book includes three articles by one of the most famous and original interpreters of Lacanian ideas in relation to modern culture, Slavoj Zizek, some of whose books are already known to Russian readers - “The Sublime Object of Ideology”, “The Fragile Absolute”, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real” , “13 experiments about Lenin.” The three articles in this “notebook” are united not only by Lacanian methodology, but also by the subject of consideration - globalization, universalization, cybernetization, and the nature of ethnic conflicts. These topics turn the book towards a wide range of readers.