Project
The Cormoran
The digital publication's founding ambition is to promote a free, radically disenchanted intellectual debate, firmly free from the constraining and paralysing logic of today's ideological trenches.
The community
The strategic objective of this European project is to be a new generation think tank. An intellectual space programmatically defined as "out of the bubble," marked by rigorous and unassailable authority and structured as a genuine living community of scholars, analysts, and commentators.
The significance of the naming — Cormoran Strike. The explicit reference is to methodological and deontological traits of investagore Cormoran Strike, that embodies precisely the think tank claims: to set out methodically follow the traces, data and evidence that other actors, distracted by the urgency of the news cycle or constrained by predefined political agendas, deliberately choose to ignore.
The content
Post-truth Era / Polycrisis
Conformity / Media toxicity
Epistemological crisis / Permanent crisis
Systemic instability / Extreme polarization
Political fault line / The bubble
The contemporary international landscape is unequivocally defined by a condition of chronic and system instability, and era of interconnected and permanent crises that political and economic analysts consistently describe with the term, "polycrisis."
The state of global tension is not confined solely to its geopolitical, macroeconomic or health-related dimensions. Rather, it is configured in a prominent, pervasisive, and underlying way, as a profound informational and epistemological crisis.
It is precisely within this historical, cognitive and political fault line, in the space left empty by the collapse of traditional analystical journalism and the rigidification of institutions, that the founation and development of The Cormoran project strategically take shape.