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. The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.