ABSTRACT
The text stands as an important moment on the machinic phylum of becoming forest, if only because it heralded the first occasion whereby the 'whole' of Goolengook was written or depicted in terms of forest trees. Goolengook emerges as a space marked by a becoming-vacant – a 'primitive' space largely unoccupied and unknown to Europeans. A becoming-dingo or becoming-bandicoot would certainly lessen the density of Goolengook. Plan 44E/8248 illustrates the becoming molar of Goolengook River – a marking out of a body separate to rather than an extension of surrounding bodies. In Deleuze and Guattari's view, it is a process of capture, an appropriation or molarisation of bodies which attempts to arrest desire or becomings molecular. For Deleuze and Guattari the primary function of the State is to constrain the flow and distribution of bodies across land, sea, air and water scapes – to organize spaces as geopolitical terrains.
