Institute for Fictional Civilizations · Est. MMXXVI
The study of civilizations that never existed.
Games, novels, films and myths are our field sites. Their societies, faiths, ecologies and collapses are our subject.
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23Excavations
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published
20Worlds
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Featured ExcavationNº 0023
Excavation Nº 0023 · Ecologies
The Toxic Jungle That Was Healing the World
In Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the poisonous forest is not killing the world. It is cleaning it. An ecology of the Sea of Corruption.
- World
- The Sea of Corruption, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Period
- A thousand years after the Seven Days of Fire (in-world)
- Status
- Active
The Departments
Seven ways of reading an imagined world.
Every Excavation is filed in one of the Institute's departments. Open a drawer to see what it holds.
The Register
Recent excavations
0023The Toxic Jungle That Was Healing the WorldEcologiesNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind● Active0022The People Who Outlived the BombAnthropologyFallout● Active0021The Genealogy of the DragonObservatoryMany Worlds● Active0020The Last Days of AnthemAnthropologyAnthem○ Extinct0019The Civilization Beneath Every CivilizationMythosphereMany Worlds● Active0018The Living Gods of MorrowindReligionsMorrowind○ Extinct
The Institute's thesis
Fiction is not escapism.
Humanity keeps imagining other civilizations. The Institute studies what they reveal about power, belief, survival and ourselves.
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