A few years ago, after scrapping “Metacology”, my wife checked out a book for me called, “A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History” by the eloquent Manuel DeLanda (DeLanda). I was immediately engaged by the ideas and bought a copy of the book for myself. He retells the last thousands years of human history three times through the lenses of geography, biology, and culture. I soon found that DeLanda was decoding ideas from “A Thousand Plateaus”, a book by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (Deleuze). Needless to say, I promptly purchased their book as well, and DeLanda's interpretations catalyzed my digestion of Deleuze and Guattari's protein-rich musings. DeLanda constructed a portable model, much easier to use than their sprawling and rhizomatic “body-without-organs” (Deleuze 149). DeLanda is an expert navigator of their landscape of ideas. He developed a succinct and useful way of interpreting the many different aspects of their work, a map of the territory that he carried around in his head. He grounded their ideas in the current science of complexity and systems theories. But it was the portability of his model that struck me most (Kaplan, Cognition 181). I wondered how I might create such a vivid and accessible model. This was the first step towards conceiving “The Flocking Party”.