ABSTRACT
This chapter starts from the assumption that internet parody images, including but not limited to memes, are a particularly fruitful genre when thinking about how people knows contemporary world politics. Visual humour and parody makes something take off and becomes a meme, and thus some fragments of political knowledge from the everyday world becomes emphasised temporarily more broadly while others are only noticed by a few. The chapter argues that how people knows world politics in the everyday is increasingly fragmented because of the speed of circulation and seeming randomness of the digital artefacts they encounter every day. Despite the fragmentation of knowledge, the constellations of parodies and individual memes constitutes a particular international and incite laughter. The chapter also argues to hegemonic in contemporary world politics. In order to engage creatively with both the visuality and the seeming randomness and increasing fragmentation of contemporary everyday world political knowledge, the chapter presents an art-based digital methodology.
