I Introduction; 1. Seeing like a behavioural state; 2. Debating the behavioural state; II Observations; 3. Brokering the central behavioural state; 4. Localizing the local behavioural state; 5. Professionalizing the behavioural state; 6. Tailoring the behavioural state; 7. Institutionalizing the behavioural state; 8. Deliberating the behavioural state; 9. Interdisciplinizing the behavioural state; III Discussion; 10. Futuring the behavioural state