The preeminent principle of Deleuze’s philosophy of immanence is that of univocity: “expressive immanence cannot be sustained unless it is accompanied by a thoroughgoing conception of univocity, a thoroughgoing affirmation of univocal Being” (Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, 178). Similar to Spinoza’s single substance philosophy, Deleuze banishes all hierarchy from ontology. The result of the latter is a stripped-naked philosophy of immanence; one that seeks not to arrive at immanence through its relation with something other than itself, but rather one that thinks from immanence as the first and absolute principle of its own auto-poetic immanence to itself. In his words: