MADE MY FIRST DEEP DIVE INTO BOTH Deleuze and Guattari and J.K. Randall's work at around the same time, and through the same source: John Rahn's seminars on analytical personae and critical theory at the University of Washington in the mid-2000s. It was also in one of these seminars that I first began thinking seriously about how one might go about critically, analytically, theoretically, and politically engaging musical improvisation, as well as, more generally, how to think musically: that is, how to make thinking about music be more like music. 1 In order to clarify this last point, we might read four statements of John's alongside one another: