In a new book published in Russian simultaneously with the original, the famous left-wing philosopher Slava Zizek subjected the situation in the world to strict "cognitive mapping" after the events of 2011-12: the Arab spring, the Occupy Wall Street movement, which reached Moscow (OccupyAbay), ethnic pogroms in Europe, etc. Zizek develops in the book "the global theory of hopelessness of political and ideological representation." The author, perhaps for the first time so boldly, exposes not only the right, but also the left idols (riots of the "salary bourgeoisie," fundamentalism, Islamo-fascism, multiculturalism). Marx also gets the privileges of "creative capitalists," representative democracy and voluntaristic nihilism. In the new features of the global crisis, Zizek finds ominous signs that the union of capitalism and democracy will soon end in divorce. Two liberation movements are examined in detail: the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement. Using popular TV series and blockbusters as a starting point, the author brings to the topic of how to deal with the world system without contributing to the progress of its domination.