infowhelm

Etymology

From info- + whelm.

infowhelm means An overwhelming abundance of contested scientific information. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.

noun

An overwhelming abundance of contested scientific information.“Artists entangle epistemologies by turning scientific information into a representational device in its own right. That is, information becomes a distinct aesthetic element and a space of interpretive activity that diagnoses infowhelm—and, in some cases, even reproduces it—and experiments with ways of managing it.”