pregiven, n.All

The Pregiven (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠where theory starts: before Euclid, a practice of measuring straight boards was already there, handed to the would-be inventor of geometry.

The Pregiven (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠often produced: sex is not a pregiven surface on which culture writes gender, but something gender's own apparatus establishes as prior to culture.